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0x2D: FSF's Restricted Boot Paper

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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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