The UEFI 9/11 - Part I - Introduction to Impending Catastrophe (Microsoft Preventing People From Booting Non-Windows Systems)
Today commences an eight-part series about what's going to happen on 9/11 of 2025. Many people won't be able to boot into BSD and GNU/Linux anymore. Microsoft staff does not deny it; joking about it is in bad taste because people will suffer.
What does this mean to fair competition?
What does this mean to Microsoft?
What will regulators do?
It is possible that this eight-part series will become a lot longer, but our outlining so far says 8. The timing seems right because of impending trials [1, 2].
"Currently," LWN says, "shim is signed with a Microsoft key from 2011 that expires on September 11."
Yes, that's right. September 11. Stay tuned.
Does someone at Microsoft has a morbid sense of humour? █