Fedora Pays Microsoft Boot License fee.

[Eric Shubert]

On 06/10/2012 01:11 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Microsoft responded by saying that there was no mandate from Microsoft
> that prevents secure booting from being disabled in firmware or that
> keys could not be updated and managed.

I think this is key to understanding the situation. Anyone can easily 
disable secure booting and people can do as they please, as they do 
presently.

In order to use secure booting with an alternative OS, one simply needs 
to get a certificate request signed by a CA (a service which comes with 
a fee), much the same as certs are done for SSL. This would be one cert 
per OS, not per computer. I'm not certain of the details of how to do 
this, but this is my understanding of the process.

BL, if you don't want or need secure booting, things are pretty much the 
same as they've always been. I doubt that most people would notice a 
difference between UEFI and traditional BIOS per se. The differences are 
largely between different vendor's implementations, as has always been 
the case.

As Larry said earlier, much to say about nothing.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'