Eventually UEFI 'Secure Boot' Will be Dropped (Users Will Demand Its Removal and Boycott Its Pushers)
3 years ago Red Hat/IBM helped Microsoft scare users into locking themselves out of their own hardware with 'secure boot' (which Stallman calls restricted boot because it only makes booting worse). Now it is anticipated that next month many users will be locked out of GNU/Linux (nobody denies this, not even Microsoft staff). It would not be the first time [1, 2, 3].
Some OEMs already tell users to turn off "secure boot", which they only put there to appease Microsoft (probably for Windows "discounts" or "certification"). Eventually, we predict, they will just remove it altogether. They already know users hate that thing and it's increasing risk, not preventing real incidents (it is merely causing more dangerous incidents). As the market share of Windows goes down and Intel circles down the toilet we expect OEMs will just listen to users. █
