[Trisquel-users] Secure boot and the future of Trisquel. Who will pay Microsoft?

[tegskywalker]

I read today that RedHat will pay Microsofot to make sure their operating  
systems are able to boot with the upcoming Secure Boot that Microsoft may or  
may not require OEMs to have:  
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/redhat-will-pay-microsoft-to-ensure-fedora-18-runs-on-windows-8-pcs-2012061/

With this in mind, it would suck if operating systems will require payment to  
Microsoft to be able to install with Secure Boot in place. How would this  
affect community distros like Debian, Slackware and Arch? If that is the  
case, would Canonical pay Microsoft for Ubuntu? I say this because Trisquel  
is based off of Ubuntu and their payment towards it would then hopefully  
affect Trisquel due to the shared code base.

I am aware that there are companies like Think Penguin and System76 that  
think about GNU/Linux support as their main concern, but Secure Boot affects  
the average consumer who buys a computer from a store or a retailer like  
Dell.

Let's just hope Stallman doesn't have another heart attack if this is the way  
of computing from now on.