Steve Litt <slitt@???> writes:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 09:36:05 +0000
> Simon Hobson <linux@???> wrote:
>
>> Trash the OS - fair game (maybe). Brick the hardware, that's another
>> kettle of fish.
>
> Another (and consistent) view is that we had a deal. From 1969 til
> 2013, we had a deal that if you backed up every day and then used a bad
> rf command, restoration to the beginning of the day would be a couple
> hours of work, and that's it.

Support for the 'EFI variables' filesystem was added to Linux in 2012,

https://lwn.net/Articles/518690/

Your argument would still seem to be with 'Linux'.