For some reasons i am not able to get debian members response in my mailbox to my query posted on mailing list.

So i have written a brief post about UEFI, Canonical and Microsoft over here - http://harshad.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/the-ghost-of-uefi-and-micr00ft/


Canonical too has some plans for UEFI..experts can find the link in blog post.

Please post your views so that i can get to know what debian and FOSS policies are about UEFI, BIOS and Grub 2. Or you can directly mail me your thoughts.




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Harshad Joshi <firewalrus@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:52 PM
Subject: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


i was reading this article -*
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html*
It is written by someone related to redhat and it describes implementing UEFI secure boot in Fedora Core.


Lot of PC/laptop/tablets in 2012 and beyond will have UEFI instead of good old bios.
I want to know what Debian is planning to do and how it will thwart this potential threat to opensource software and now hardware architecture.*


Will Debian community fight against this evil step taken by computer makers ?*
All idea of opensource is not open unless we have access to open hardware architecture.*



--
Harshad Joshi





--
Harshad Joshi

Harshad Joshi writes:
> Lot of PC/laptop/tablets in 2012 and beyond will have UEFI instead of
> good old bios.

Bad old bios. Very bad. It was designed for 8080s and floppy disks.
It was excellent for that environment but it has been obsolete for
decades.

> Will Debian community fight against this evil step taken by computer
> makers?

UEFI is not evil (though Coreboot is better), and there is a lot more to
it than the signing stuff. Even the latter is not intrinsically evil:
it all depends on the implementation.
--
John Hasler


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