Karen and Bradley discuss FSF's
announcement of FSF's
white paper on Restricted Boot, which critiques Red Hat's approach to
restricted boot for its Fedora distribution and Canonical,
Ltd.'s approach to restricted boot for its Ubuntu distribution.


Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:38)



Karen mentioned it's useful that FSF avoids preloaded names.
Bradley used FSF's
criticism of the term “intellectual property” as an
example of why it's important to avoid biased terminology. (02:22)

Karen suggested that listeners may want to read FSF's
white paper on Restricted Boot. (04:00)

Bradley suggested also reading
the Fedora statement
and both Canonical,
Ltd. statements.
(04:37)

Bradley and Karen mentioned the
many
blog
posts
Matthew
Garrett
made
about
UEFI
are
worth
reading
in
sequence
to
learn
more
about
this
issue. (13:21)

Bradley mentioned that FSF
collaborated with the EFF on the broadcast flag
issue. (25:40)

Alan
Cox made some critical posts toward Matthew and the Red Hat policy.
(20:50)

Bradley mentioned this Ancient
Aliens from the History channel. (39:15)






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