FSF Criticises Ubuntu For Dropping Grub 2 For Secure Boot

sfcrazy writes "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published a whitepaper suggesting how free operating systems can deal with UEFI secure boot. In the whitepaper, the foundation has criticized the approach Canonical/Ubuntu has taken to deal with the problem. The paper reads: 'It is not too late to change. We urge Ubuntu and Canonical to reverse this decision, and we offer our help in working through any licensing concerns. We also hope that Ubuntu, like Fedora, will actively support users generating and using their own signing keys to run and share any versions of the software, and not require users to install a key from Canonical to get the full benefit of their operating system.'"

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[hairyfeet]

What you are missing is that unlike Nintendo both Sony and MSFT sell their consoles under the razor and blades business model which is also why Sony quit supporting OtherOS. I am surprised when that whole thing came down how nobody seemed to notice that Sony was bleeding money already and you had researchers buying 500+ PS3s at a time to make clusters. every single modded or clustered PS3 is one more system Sony takes a loss on and doesn't get squat back.

As for the FSF? Sigh, why does anybody listen to them anymore? With their whole BadVista and Win 7 "sins" (gotta love that one, acting like they are a fricking church) its obvious the only "freedom" the FSF supports is to be JUST LIKE THEM and if you don't support the FSF "way" then you are wrong and evil and a monster.

One final note and a little offtopic but does anybody else notice that it is coders and ONLY coders that RMS hates? I mean he takes money from Intel and IBM and he doesn't ever say that doctors or CEOs shouldn't get paid JUST programmers. Why is the sweat off a programmer's brow worthless, yet the sweat from a plumber isn't? I mean sure he says you can sell copies but we all know you'll sell exactly ONE and then someone will just come along and sell or give away your work and that is that. The Red Hat support model only works in a teeny tiny niche, and when anybody tries to find another way? RMS has a shitfit. Anybody remember when RMS said you could make money selling documentation? Now he rails against that and demands free docs.

Personally I'm starting to feel the whole damned community is getting trolled by old RMS. Sure he may have believed back in the day but now he seems to just think programmers are completely worthless and should just be happy with whatever scraps they get while not saying jack shit about CEOs or anybody else making a buck. maybe its like one of the head guys at Red Hat says "RMS treats his friends like his enemies" but the fact the guy seems to be on a crusade to make sure programmers make less than the guy cleaning up the puke at the Chuck E Cheese while taking checks from big corps that make tons off of programmers makes me wonder...