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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 09:14:00PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote:

> I agree that's a possibility.  However, I think the court of public
> opinion would pillory the first Commercial Linux Distribution that went
> to Microsoft for the express purpose of revoking their competition's
> right to boot.  It would be commercial suicide.

Oracle are something of a vexatious litigant as far as the court of 
public opinion is concerned, but even without that it could be a 
customer who complains. If you're personally comfortable with a specific 
level of security here, that's fine - but it's completely reasonable for 
others to feel that there are valid technical and commercial concerns to 
do this properly.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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