Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-12 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Nicu Buculei nicu_fed...@nicubunu.ro wrote: On 06/12/2012 12:58 PM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: The point is we have a target audience:

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-12 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/12/2012 08:10 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Due to my respect to your request, I thought about it for nearly 72 hours. I still stand behind what I said: People who are incapable of switching a BIOS setting, which might involve doing

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-12 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 11:08 -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: Let Fedora help bring to market better hardware. Do not agree that Microsoft should have the Hardware Root Key on just about all x86 style computers for sale next

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-12 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: Jay Sulzberger (j...@panix.com) said: There is here no irrestible tide. Rather, Fedora is jumping to surrender before engagement. Secret discussions with Microsoft is perhaps part of this engagement

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-12 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Tom Callaway tcall...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/12/2012 04:16 PM, Jay Sulzberger wrote: I cannot guarantee that any particular negotiation with Lenovo, nor with Dell, will succeed. But certainly negotiating only with ourselves, without even trying to negotiate with Lenovo

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-14 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: Le mardi 12 juin 2012 ?? 10:58 -0400, Jay Sulzberger a ??crit : On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: No because secure boot does not limit your freedom in *any* way. If you want to hack on the kernel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-14 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/14/2012 01:56 PM, Jay Sulzberger wrote: If Fedora appears to accept that Microsoft should have the Hardware Root Key, our side's arguments, in several arenas, are weakened. Okay, first off, quit hijacking fedora-devel-list

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-14 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: stuff removed / It's completely their decision as to how they ship this, and nothing we can do will ever change that. Peter, this is ridiculous. Of course Fedora might be able to get matters better

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-14 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 15:46 -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: Please forgive this top posting. I will not answer now your radical defense of Microsoft, except to say two things: 1. Your defense would apply also

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-15 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Mathieu Bridon boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 15:46 -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: Please forgive this top posting. I will not answer now your radical defense of Microsoft, except to say two things: 1. Your defense would apply also

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-16 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Jun 16, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: Why do we need to bring Microsoft into this, much less listen to, or communicate with them? Forget about them. Ahh, the Ostrich Maneuver. Had this been the policy of

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 07:54:17PM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 17.06.2012 01:14, schrieb Chris Murphy: Please provide an example of a better

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Jay Sulzberger wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 07:54:17PM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 17.06.2012 01:14, schrieb

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Jay Sulzberger wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Jay Sulzberger wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 07:54:17PM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:21:14 -0400 (EDT) Jay Sulzberger j...@panix.com wrote: I think 50 million dollars toward buying, and properly arranging the UEFI, of several lots of x86 computers would indeed solve part of the problem you point

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Gerald Henriksen ghenr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:01:53 -0400, you wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 07:54:17PM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Reindl

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Gerald Henriksen ghenr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:21:14 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 07:54:17PM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Reindl

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Gerald Henriksen ghenr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:09:37 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:21:14 -0400 (EDT) Jay Sulzberger j...@panix.com wrote: I think 50 million dollars toward

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-17 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:21:14PM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: I think 50 million dollars toward buying, and properly arranging the UEFI, of several lots of x86 computers would indeed solve part of the problem you point out

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:09:52AM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: The game is now just about over. What if one day, Microsoft makes it even harder to install Fedora without a Microsoft controlled key? What if, as has already

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:56:54AM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: We just need hardware we can install Fedora on, as once we did, without asking Microsoft for permission. System76 have committed to providing hardware without

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Gerald Henriksen ghenr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 01:09:52 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:21:14PM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: I think 50 million dollars toward

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:14:04AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: So you want Fedora to boot on all hardware sold? I want Red Hat, Fedora, and the

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/18/2012 11:03 AM, Jay Sulzberger wrote: Microsoft has not refused to grant Fedora a key for ARM. This I do not understand. By reports in the admittedly incompetent magazines dealing with home computers, Microsoft's

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-18 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:03:23AM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: This I do not understand. By reports in the admittedly incompetent magazines dealing with home computers, Microsoft's policy is to keep Fedora, and any other

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 09:40 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: On 06/18/2012 06:18 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: I hesitate to put words in people's mouths, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it reads to me as if Jay and others are arguing

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Jun 19, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Jay Sulzberger wrote: In the United States and Europe there is a large body of statute law, regulatory rulings, and court decisions which say that yes, a large powerful company cannot take

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Gerald Henriksen ghenr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:15:34 -0700, you wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 12:03 -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: Adam, just a short bald claim: In the United States and Europe there is a large body of statute law, regulatory

typo in last Was Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Sulzberger
Oi, please forgive me Gerald Henriksen! I called you Henrik, and this is not your name. Oi. oo--JS. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Microsoft.

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Gerald Henriksen ghenr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:49:15 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: As you know, for over a decade Microsoft included in every EULA for its home computer OSes, a Refund Clause. The clause stated that if the buyer of the computer never

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 17:49 -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: Henrik, I will respond to your claims, if you will answer me one question first: As you know, for over a decade Microsoft included in every EULA for its home

Re: Microsoft.

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Sulzberger
My last in this thread should not have been sent by me to the Fedora devel list. It was in answer to a private off list message. oo--JS. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-25 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: (I'm posting in this thread rather than starting a new one in order to respect people who've spam-canned it) It is being widely reported that Canonical's be signing the kernel, they won't be requiring signed drivers, and won't be

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-25 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Jun 25, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: So what's the point of Secure Pre-Boot? Making Ubuntu work on the hardware people have. Which is the justification given here why Fedora needed to adopt

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-25 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Seth Johnson seth.p.john...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: I'm reading they're going to use a modified Intel efilinux, not writing

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-25 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 09:14:54PM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote: These questions are asked so that I may better lay out some actual security considerations in a later post. http://www.uefi.org/specs/download

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-25 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/25/2012 09:14 PM, Jay Sulzberger wrote: [...] I have some questions about what sort of capabilities the UEFI will have in machines sold later this year: 1. What is the mechanism for remote revocation of signing keys? There's

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-25 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/25/2012 11:08 PM, Jay Sulzberger wrote: Is there a hardware switch or jumper that can be set so that no modification of the firmware is possible? My question here is: if I have gross physical possession of the hardware can I