On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:47:59 -0600 "Todd C. Miller" <todd.mil...@courtesan.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 16:38:29 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > What happens to OpenBSD when Secure Boot becomes manditory? > > Please read those articles again, "Secure Boot" is *not* mandatory > for Windows 10. The major change is that for Windows 8 Microsoft > *required* hardware vendors to provide a setting to disable Secure > Boot. To be certified for Windows 10, the hardware is no longer > required to have this setting. > > So no one is being forced to make Secure Boot mandatory. Let me rephrase the question: What happens to OpenBSD after Microsoft allows removal of the Secure Boot off switch, if all the commodity laptops and desktop mobos remove the Secure Boot off switch. > If some > hardware vendors choose not to include a way to turn it off they'll > simply lose some business. Twenty years of Windows/Linux/BSD history make it pretty clear that most hardware vendors have no trouble putting "Microsoft Windows" as the only OS system requirement. > At worst this creates new opportunities > for vendors interested in PC sales for Linux, BSD, etc... Yes, we've seen those vendors before. Compare price/power of systems from System76, ZaReason, Emperor Linux, and Penguin Computing to the commodity machines that, up until now, hosted non-MS operating systems just fine. > > The sky is not falling. True, but unless something creative is done pretty soon, the days of dropping BSD on a $400 Costco laptop will be gone. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
