[GLLUG] Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions - Slashdot

[Jonathan Billings]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 09:45:14AM -0400, Karl Schuttler wrote:
>
> It's also worth noting that the article says that UEFI can be disabled...I
> don't think this would really be that much a hinderance for anyone who is
> installing Redhat, but I guess Fedora feels otherwise.

I think the concern is that it's entirely up to the hardware vendors
to decide how easy it is to disable secure boot.  Right now, you can
pop in an Ubuntu LiveCD and install.  In the future, you'll have to
jump through several hoops, and depending on the vendor, dig through
the hardware's documentation, just to load an alternative OS.

So, yes, it'll be possible, but Microsoft is throwing a roadblock in
front of any competition.


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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>