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GNOME (IBM/Red Hat Staff) Promoting Microsoft's 'Security' Scam With the 'Secure' Boot Sham

IBM/Red Hat, which paid Garrett to vandalise Linux [1, 2], is shilling Microsoft's vendor lockin (a ploy to force people to use NSA back-doored Windows, misleadingly and disingenuously disguised as "security")

Emulated host profiles in fwupd; Windows is malicious; A system you control is not 'threats'
Who chose these wordings? Richard Hughes or his paymasters?



Reply to GNOME and Red Hat developers are working on integrating firmware security tips and recommendations into the desktop for warning users about platform/firmware security issues like if UEFI Secure Boot is disabled and other possible avenues their system could be exploited...
Reply to GNOME and Red Hat developers are working on integrating firmware security tips and recommendations into the desktop for warning users about platform/firmware security issues like if UEFI Secure Boot is disabled and other possible avenues their system could be exploited...
The comments in Phoronix (those two examples are from page 1) reveal that very few GNU/Linux users have fallen for these lies



Summary: Sponsored by IBM and the 'Linux' Foundation (James Zemlin and Sheela Microsoft, who reject Linux), Richard insinuates that protecting Microsoft's monopoly (Windows) is protecting "against malicious software when the device starts"

Richard Hughes at Red Hat

We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger….If you’re going to kill someone, there isn’t much reason to get all worked up about it and angry. You just pull the trigger. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger. ~Jim Allchin, Microsoft's Platform Group Vice President



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