In most cases right now, we have either the option to disable secure boot,
or there is a version of GRUB that is signed, therefore permitting booting
into other operating systems. For right now, investigate before buying to
make sure you have the option to boot your operating system of choice.

At some point though, as those options start to go away, we will probably
have to fight this in the courts under grounds that it is an
anti-competitive process.

Searching for, and advocating for motherboards that support coreboot is
another important strategy, because only when free firmware is available
can we be sure there will be no dirty tricks.

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 7:52 AM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 12:21:14PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 06:35:11AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > How *do* we deal with secure boot? I am terrified of buying a new
> > > machine because I'm afraid I won't get to install anything on it
> > > wxcept for an OS from one of the big companies that have
> > > sweetheart deals with Microsoft.
> >
> > I think that so far secure boot can be disabled. I confirm I was able
> > to disable it in my laptop. This does not mean that it would be
> > optional forever, though.
>
> The ability to disable secure boot was a requirement for the Windows 8 Logo
> program (obviously to stave off accusations from the EU). It is gone for
> Windows 10 Logo, and thus you can expect hardware vendors to drop it --
> such
> features cause development and support costs. This would be the case even
> with no underhanded policies, and know that "no underhanded policies" goes
> strictly against Microsoft volume licensing policy.
>
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