The FSF's advice to distributors on UEFI secure boot
The FSF's advice to distributors on UEFI secure boot
The Free Software Foundation has published a
paper describing its position on UEFI secure boot and how Fedora and
Ubuntu are implementing it. "Software signed with self-generated
keys has the downside of not working on the majority of computers right off
the shelf, without the user taking some extra steps. We acknowledge that
this is an issue, but in addition to insisting on (and contributing to)
documentation to make the necessary process easy to follow, we will strive
to solve this problem through political action against manufacturers and
proprietary software companies who impede free software
adoption. Encouraging free software distributors and users to trust
Microsoft or any other proprietary software company as a precondition to
exercising their freedoms is simply not an acceptable solution.
"