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'You have to divulge your private key' meme

'You have to divulge your private key' meme

Posted Jul 3, 2012 12:29 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: 'You have to divulge your private key' meme by NAR
Parent article: The FSF's advice to distributors on UEFI secure boot

>And what happens if a there comes a new vendor tomorrow who doesn't implement support for this in order to save $0.02 per unit?

Then they would *potentially* have a GPL3 problem, and they wouldn't be able to get Windows certification.

In that case, saving $0.02 per unit doesn't seem like such a great trade-off, since the resulting machine would have a target audience closely resembling (if not actually equal to) the empty set.


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