[arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

[Don deJuan]

On 06/25/2012 12:44 PM, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
> On 25/06/12 21:18, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 21:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> 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
>>                                          ^^^^^ at least (broken English,
>> apologize)
>>> follow the policy of Apple per se.
>>>
>>
>>
> Could you guys keep it either ontopic and stop ranting about Microsoft
> or Apple/OSX:
> a) it doesn't help
> b) it's a waste of your time, in that time you could have done something
> usefull like contributing to an opensource project so that there are
> better alternatives ;)
>

I second that one, it is just noise complaining so much about both, 
especially on an Arch MB