Color me shocked...

Posted Jul 12, 2022 16:37 UTC (Tue) by bpearlmutter (subscriber, #14693)
In reply to: Color me shocked... by ermo
Parent article: Garrett: Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot ecosystem

How about *not* holding fire, instead going ballistic about this issue, so MS will learn a valuable lesson and be more careful next time? You know, encourage them to develop internal mechanisms to avoid making this kind of screw-up in the future.

This makes sense regardless of whether or not it was accidental.

Color me shocked...

Posted Jul 12, 2022 16:54 UTC (Tue) by donbarry (guest, #10485) [Link] (1 responses)

The community is not served by extending the slightest trust to Microsoft or any other corporate entity in holding the keys for access to widely used hardware platforms.

The only solution is to demand a public trust hold these and administer them on behalf of computer users everywhere.

This is a time when Microsoft stands exposed (again) and such a demand can be raised and escalated. To defer endlessly to Microsoft is to once again lose the moment and either lose the battle now or set up one for a future loss -- nowhere is anything other than a perpetuation of the stalemate of the status quo ante a possibility without fighting for the control to be given up by Microsoft.

Color me shocked...

Posted Jul 13, 2022 16:52 UTC (Wed) by midol (guest, #25855) [Link]

as a matter of actual real-world fact Microsoft has been convicted in open court of criminal monopolism. See here:

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge...

In light of this, the characterization of the Linux community of Microsoft as being untrustworthy is an accurate description, no matter how heatedly presented.