On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:51 PM, geoffrey mendelson < [email protected]> wrote:
> > On Oct 25, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Amit Aronovitch wrote: > > Setting aside the amusing political debates and going back to the original >> topic - what's the actual status of the UEFI boot issue? >> > > > 1. Microsoft never said they would do what the FSF claims they would. > > 2. Microsoft has said, but not in these words, we were not going to do > this. > > If you want a somewhat relevant and entertaining experience watch the movie > "Minority Report". > > My concern in that message was regarding standartization of BIOS boot protocols, and whether or not future standards would allow you to boot your own self-compiled/self-signed kernels. Whatever or not the FSF announcement said. Microsoft is *not* the authority responsible for that, merely one out of 11 companies (including Apple and IBM) which are represented in the relevant forum. The relevance of FSF in the matter is only due to the fact that they brought this specific issue to the attention of this specific list. Microsoft's opinion (and I mean their opinion on BIOS boot options, not on Stallman or his visit to Israel^H^HPalestine) is relevant because I suppose that they are strongly represented, and unlikely to be ignored (Redhat is not listed on UEFI site, so I suppose Mathew Garrett's suggestions will get less attention than ideas brought forward by Microsoft). Hence my interest in the statement mentioned here. Took a while, but while writing this reply I finally got your point about "Minority Report" (been a while, and all I remembered from the film was Tom Cruise waving his hands to operate that then-futuristic-looking GUI) :-) AA
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