[arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 20:59 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 20:37 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote:
> > Once upon a time, I had a dream OSX would leed to some kind of "semi 
> > open" OS, with lots of dev improvments from the community.
> > 
> > PPPffff, it was long time ago, and was really naive.
> 
> Hahaha, when I searched for a successor for my Atari St, my first guess
> was Apple. It's not naive, since hardware is important, reliable
> hardware is important, unfortunately my moneybag ships with some
> limitations ;). I had the same dream. I won an iPad2 and can't use it,
> since Vbox + oracle-ext + XP SP2 can't handle it. No jailbreak until
> now, but I downloaded Absinth a long time ago, I simply wished to test a
> "legal" iPad for a while. My iPad2 is unable to get iBooks, so every
> elCheapo Ebookreader has more abilities than my iPad 2, just because I'm
> using Linux. It's not a fault of Linux, it's spirit of mischief by
> companies like M$ and Apfel.

PS: Do you know that there's a Apple community for old Apple OSs, I
guess before Apple switched to Intel? Even "gifted" Apple users don>'t
follow the policy of Apple per se.