Linux Foundation Welcomes LVFS Project (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 29, 2019 20:44 UTC (Fri) by darwish (guest, #102479)
Parent article: Linux Foundation Welcomes LVFS Project (Linux.com)

"Now the EFI BIOS is a fully fledged operating system with networking capabilities, companies and government agencies are realizing that."

It's really easy to misunderstand that part at first ;-)

Linux Foundation Welcomes LVFS Project (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 30, 2019 21:46 UTC (Sat) by alison (subscriber, #63752) [Link] (1 responses)

It's great that the companies and government agencies have got our back here.

Linux Foundation Welcomes LVFS Project (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 31, 2019 15:50 UTC (Sun) by mjw (subscriber, #16740) [Link]

I am not sure that is what was meant. It is certainly possible to interpret the phrasing the other way around. Currently the whole project seems to be build around making it easier to insert unverifiable proprietary blobs into user machines. There doesn't seem to be any way to get the corresponding source code of these blobs and (re)build them to make sure they function as intended by the end user. So it could be read either as a great way for companies and government agencies to more easily sneak in backdoors and user restrictions, or as a hint that companies and government agencies think these kind of update mechanisms need to be Free Software and come with corresponding source. I hope the second meaning was meant of course.