On 21 September 2011 14:55, Chris Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > This looks like something to keep an eye on.. Matthew > Garrett (the guy who makes peoples laptops work with Linux > and has to deal with EFI & Linux - makes you wonder what > awful thing he did in a past life) writes about a worrying > requirement for Windows 8 logo certification for hardware > vendors.. > > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5552.html > > # Microsoft requires that machines conforming to the > # Windows 8 logo program and running a client version > # of Windows 8 ship with secure boot enabled. The two > # alternatives here are for Windows to be signed with > # a Microsoft key and for the public part of that key > # to be included with all systems, or alternatively for > # each OEM to include their own key and sign the > # pre-installed versions of Windows. The second approach > # would make it impossible to run boxed copies of Windows > # on Windows logo hardware, and also impossible to install > # new versions of Windows unless your OEM provided a new > # signed copy. The former seems more likely. > # > # A system that ships with only OEM and Microsoft keys will > # not boot a generic copy of Linux. >
Ahhh Trusted (read Treacherous) Computing. I thought that idea was buried years ago. I guess the question will be, will the purchaser of the hardware be able to install a non-Microsoft OS? If not, I'm not sure who the hardware owner is under this model. Will we be reduced to mod-chipping "our" PCs in another five years. On another note, what have the white boxes or build it yourself? Regards George _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
