Spanish Open Source Group Files Complaint Over Microsoft Use of UEFI Secure Boot

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @10:30AM from the saga-continues dept.

sl4shd0rk writes "Hispalinux, which represents Spanish Open Source developers and users, has filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission. 14 pages of grief cited Windows 8 as an 'obstruction mechanism' calling UEFI Secure Boot a 'de facto technological jail for computer booting systems... making Microsoft's Windows platform less neutral than ever.' On March 6 of 2012 the Commission fined Microsoft 561 million Euros for failing to offer users a choice of web browser, and there was also a 2004 ruling which found the company had abused its market position by tying Windows Media Player to Windows itself. Relations appear to remain more tense towards Windows in Europe, so there may be some hope of making UEFI more Linux-friendly. UEFI has been implicated in the death of Samsung laptops running Linux."

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Re:Making UEFI more Linux friendly by KingMotley · 2013-03-26 16:05 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Negative.
Linux can either sign their bootloaders with either:
1) Their own key and provide the necessary key and have users install it into the UEFI, or have the motherboard/bios manufacturers preload it, OR
2) Use Microsoft's key and sign it their boot loaders with that since it is likely already installed into most (non-apply) UEFI systems OR
3) Instruct users to disable secure boot and you can live your live in blissful ignorance never knowing if malware has taken over your entire linux machine, logging every keystroke you make, and recording everything you do, and sending it off to the "bad guys".
Anonymous Coward flings FUD, news at 11.