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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] EFI/GPT</H1>
    <B>Johnny A. Solbu</B> 
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    <I>Sun Mar  3 17:26:01 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>On Friday 1. March 2013 22.13, Thomas Backlund wrote:
&gt;<i> sure, it can currently be disabled... but as soon as people start
</I>&gt;<i> accept this there will soon be a &quot;Secure Boot v2&quot; mandating it
</I>&gt;<i> be enabled all the time, and those that want complete freedom will
</I>&gt;<i> be screwed as MS gets in a position to control what can boot on your
</I>&gt;<i> system...
</I>
We don't even have to wait for v2. Their current policy for certifying hardware for windows 8 is that Arm based devices _cannot_ be allowed to disable  Secure Boot. So in the future they might expand that requirement to other hardware types.

<A HREF="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/">http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/</A>
<A HREF="http://www.pcworld.com/article/248342/windows_8_secure_boot_the_controversy_continues.html">http://www.pcworld.com/article/248342/windows_8_secure_boot_the_controversy_continues.html</A>

&gt;<i> We are promoting freedom and open source, not MS crap.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> So the time to speak up is _now_ and fight this vendor lock-in.
</I>
Hear hear!

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Johnny A. Solbu
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