Hello @Evans, IMHO, FOSS are a business sector thus these statements below by Canonical & Red Hat are a business marketing strategy where they are faced with changes to market penetration compared to hardware penetration. There is an upside to all this, all that needs to be done is e.g go to the Texas Instruments Website and select the hardware manufacture needed for FOSS systems. There is no need for dependencies any longer. Most chip manufacturers have gone FOSS support, this below is not even worth mentioning any more. On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:

Canonical and Red Hat have issued a joint statement<http://blog.canonical.com/2011/10/28/white-paper-secure-boot-impact-on-linux/>regarding Microsoft’s plan to make UEFI Secure Boot a requirement of Windows 8. Simultaneously, The Linux Foundation has issued a similar statement<http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/making-uefi-secure-boot-work-with-open-platforms> .

We first covered this issue<http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsoft%E2%80%99s-take-uefi-may-impede-linux-and-that%E2%80%99s-being-polite>in September. The joint Red Hat and Canonical statement opens with an assessment of the situation:

*The UEFI specification for secure boot does not define who controls the boot restrictions on UEFI platforms, leaving the platform implementer in control of the exact security model. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s recommended implementation of secure boot removes control of the system from the hardware owner, and may prevent open source operating systems from functioning. The Windows 8 requirement for secure boot will pressure OEMs to implement secure boot in this fashion.

Please read more here<http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-heavyweights-develop-secure-boot-strategy> *