Is Red Hat About to Give the Boot to GNOME People Who Helped Microsoft 'Secure' (Monopolised) Boot?
3 years ago: GNOME (IBM/Red Hat Staff) Promoting Microsoft's 'Security' Scam With the 'Secure' Boot Sham ('secure' boot is not about security at all; it makes security worse)
Reading today between the lines and within the lines, and having just mentioned this in the sister site, citing the original by Richard Hughes ("LVFS Sustainability Plan"), we honestly wonder, will IBM/Red Hat lay off (this coming Monday) Richard Hughes? Well, he sort of speaks like that. He's looking to raise money because depending on Microsoft's 'Linux' Foundation or on IBM's sponsorship of GNOME wasn't a good idea (GNOME is deep in the red; the Foundation might not survive for much longer; its chief now bemoans “bureaucracy”).
"Sounds like Red Hat will lay him off on Monday," the sister site said. There is now also a report about Intel layoffs and how they are hitting the Linux Kernel. Phoronix says that a number of important kernel modules are marked as “Orphan” due to the layoffs. That includes the Slim Bootloader (not shim), but what will follow next/soon, 'secure' boot? Intel was one of its main pushers, aside from Microsoft. IBM too seems to be readying to lay off the firmware people (at Red Hat), based on past coverage of ours, so expect a disaster in the making to become more apparent.
It was always a dumb idea to play along with Microsoft's hardware mischief. Windows isn't selling of hardly selling (only when tied to a new PC), so Microsoft is trying everything within its power to integrate Windows into hardware components, even buying companies to achieve that. █