Australian Users Petitioning Against Windows 8 Secure Boot

In his first accepted submission, lukemartinez sends in an excerpt from a ZDNet article on continuing developments about Microsoft's UEFI secure boot requirements: "The Linux Australia community began petitioning the ACCC this week after Microsoft aired plans to mandate the enabling of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface's secure boot feature for devices bearing the 'Designed for Windows 8' logo. This means that any software or hardware that is to run on the firmware will need to be signed by Microsoft or the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to be able to execute. This would make it impossible to install alternative operating systems like Linux..." Delimeter has further information on the petititions, and Matthew Garret recently posted a follow-up to Microsoft's response to the concerns about secure boot, calling them out on their misinformation.

Comments

Re:Hunting...

[Zaldarr]

Found it buried beneath several links. http://www.accc.gov.au/content/maintain/create/index.phtml?contentTypeItemId=9133&informationSpaceItemId=268347&inPop=1&returnUrl=.&type=Other

Re:Only affects OEM stuff?

[Hatta]

Anyone who wants to repurpose an OEM computer. Anyone who doesn't want to pay extra for jailbroken motherboards. Anyone who thinks people should own their property, instead of being beholden to the manufacturer.

That's who.