Back To You:
Dear Mr. Blackthorne,

Let me Thank You ! for making the correction to the links.  I understand the 
frustration and let me assure you that I did NOT just copy and pasted text 
displayed links.  I clicked on the links and had them open within a new tab.  I 
then copied the links from these open and working tabs to my email.  If it did 
not work, I would not have know due to the manner I found the links.  Thanks ! 
again for your assistance.

If you like to learn of additional effort to resolve this issue for the freedom 
of all computer users, there was another announcement BUT from the Free 
Software Foundation (FSF) called " Will your computer's 'Secure Boot' turn out 
to be 'Restricted Boot' ?" :

You can find it at the following link - 
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/about/
 

Within this document, they also present links to the UEFI organization and to 
other technical detailed documents (if you are interested in this type of 
information).  The also at the end of this announcement have additional news 
and Blog links on this subject.

Here are some links that I picked up and will pass-a-long for your convenience :

UEFI organization their specifications :

            http://www.uefi.org/specs/

Here is mention of their acceptance of the Open Source efforts (I have 
corrected the link to correctly point to the true site, they had done a cut and 
paste that included wrongly the www in-front of the actual link) :

The UEFI Board endorses the open source effort for the Self Certification Test 
(SCT) for the PI Specification Version 1.0 at  
http://sourceforge.org/projects/pi-sct  . This
 is the most recent SCT. In general, the SCT to a new version of the PI 
specification is expected to be available 18 months after the 
specification release.

Linked to this first document is the FSF efforts for creation of the "Free 
BIOS", link :

            http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html  

and here is the following link to this effort of the creation of the 
"coreboot", link :

            http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot  

So as you can see there is, actually, a lot going on to assist users (whomever 
they may be) to have the freedom of choice in being able to run the operating 
system of your choice.

I hope that this information and links do not have the previous issues and is 
able to help inform the members of LOPSA.

Regards,
Harvey Rothenberg
Systems Integrator/Security Specialist

--- On Fri, 11/2/12, Morgan Blackthorne <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Morgan Blackthorne <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Did you see this ? - Linux Foundation Announces 
Secure Boot Solution ...
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, November 2, 2012, 12:38 AM

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html is the link, I believe.
On Nov 1, 2012 9:30 PM, "Dave Close" <[email protected]> wrote:

Harvey Rothenberg wrote:



>Here are links to each of these distributions current solutions :

>

>Fedora :

>  http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html=C2=A0=20



Thanks for the status summary. But that one gives me a 404.

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