Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Dave U . Random
My assessment is still being built so thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, Jerry Not that I paid attention to the proposal, because I decided a few decades ago governments were the root of all evil and nothing they do is for anybody's good. There isn't enough time in the universe to read

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Dave U . Random
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: 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?

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Dave U . Random
Wojciech Puchar woj...@tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: anyway NOBODY are forced to buy micro-soft software. That's almost correct but not quite. In 99% of the cases any Intel commodity mafiaware comes with a preinstalled Winblows. You're paying for it whether you want it or not. You can get a refund in

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Dave U . Random
Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: Yes, let's all run ALPHA and MIPS hardware. I'll just jam my Nvidia card into one of the available slots and everything should work OK, right? Dear Numbskull, It's co-dependent hostages like you who enable Intel Mafiaware. According to your logic we should

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-14 Thread Dave U . Random
If you read Fedora's page they were planning to tighten their boot sequence to then only boot their approved binary kernels. Save your old copies of lilo and grub. You're gonna need them if you want to stay on Intel Mafioso hardware. Risk of key revocation later If hardware