[arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 22:05 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 21:44 +0200, 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 ;)
> > 
> 
> Pardon.
> 
> We, at least I shouldn't waste the time of other people.
> 
> No excuse for writing useless stuff, you're right, OTOH is it really
> time, that could be used for something better?
> 
> Some people take "things" more or less serious. 
> We are on a software mailing list ... software is a joke regarding to
> other simple issues such as
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_power_skinhead
> You might call it polemic and OT for this list. Ok, you might be right,
> where is the border? UEFI also is far away from the unconvincable
> Neo-Nazis ... well everything so far is good, so there's no reason to be
> polemic and in the end we'll chime in "we were not aware about it".
> Yes, lets be quiet, sorry again,
> Ralf

And yes, I'm a German, half of my grandparents would agree with you, the
other half was killed in WWII, because they made too much noise. I've a
criminal record for absence of the German armed forces.

In German we say "wehret den Anfängen".
Yes, I might be polemic, it might be completely useless, but do we know?

UEFI dosen't kill people, so I must be a polemic German idiot. Any
hints, when freedom really is attached and when we should talk about it
are welcome.

Oh, nobody today can get a criminal record for what I've done, the law
changed a little bit, because idiots like me where haunted and today
everybody has got a choice.

Note! Evil companies aren't stupid, they know how far they can go, IOW,
they take care that many people guess that criticism could be confused
with grotesque paranoia or too much noise on a mailing list.

I might be wrong, but you might be wrong too,
Ralf