On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> On 06/06/2012 11:24, Jerry wrote: > > I think you are in error there Matthew. From what I have read The $99 > > goes to Verisign, not Microsoft - further once paid you can sign as > > many binaries as you want. > > Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the > point is why should I have to pay anything to a third party in order to > run whatever OS I want on a piece of hardware I own? > > $99 as a one-off payment might seem a trivial cost to you, so much so > that you rather rashly promised to pay that for anyone. I won't hold you > to it. Even so, there are several thousand readers of this list. I > doubt even you could afford to subsidise very many of them... > > Yes UEFI Secure Boot may have been around for 8 years. The fact that no > one has adopted use of it in all that time speaks volumes. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW > > What will be the usefulness of a security key for an Open Source Operating System when people are not using mostly "proprietary" binary packages and nearly all of the supplied binary packages have accompanying sources ? When FreeBSD is installing a binary package or making a port , it is ALWAYS checking integrity of installed parts . Then is there a necessity of a "Security Key" obtained by paying money ? In Turkish literature , there is a person named as "Deli Dumrul" means "Crazy Dumrul" where his name is "Dumrul" . "Crazy Dumrul" constructed a bridge over a dried river . If any one passes from the bridge , he was taking money for passing over the bridge for "Using the Bridge" , and , if any one is NOT passing from the bridge , and walking over the dried river , he was taking money for "Not to Use the Bridge" . It seems that "History is Repeating" .... Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
