Therefore all this post and all this rant and all this time is just lost energy. The FSF is going to act, take it for granted, and the keys will be distributed and they will be misused and subsequently banned and we won't be able to install gnulinuxes and we will all cry but it'll be too late since vendors will only have the wrong hardware to offer. We will all lose precious time.
Just stop this nonsense. How many times do we have to fail in traps until we learn? You can not and must not trust Microsoft, boy, it is as simple as that.
And we needn't do it. All that cloud hardware must run gnulinuxes and friends, they will never buy Win8-only hardware, so that's a huge force that we have. Let's simply not give up. This is another battle to be fought, let's not be cowards and easy-going. Yeah, some vendors will change sides, but most won't sell themselves completely out to MS in the midterm, and that be all. We will only lose if we don't fight, but how awful it'll be, much worse than saying just "NO, we keep our and other's freedom alive".
Do not make this strategic mistake, it is not going to be easier going that road, on the contrary. Enlighten yourselves again.
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Stop this nonsense now!
Date: 2012-06-04 11:41 am (UTC)The FSF is going to act, take it for granted, and the keys will be distributed and they will be misused and subsequently banned and we won't be able to install gnulinuxes and we will all cry but it'll be too late since vendors will only have the wrong hardware to offer. We will all lose precious time.
Just stop this nonsense. How many times do we have to fail in traps until we learn? You can not and must not trust Microsoft, boy, it is as simple as that.
And we needn't do it. All that cloud hardware must run gnulinuxes and friends, they will never buy Win8-only hardware, so that's a huge force that we have. Let's simply not give up. This is another battle to be fought, let's not be cowards and easy-going. Yeah, some vendors will change sides, but most won't sell themselves completely out to MS in the midterm, and that be all. We will only lose if we don't fight, but how awful it'll be, much worse than saying just "NO, we keep our and other's freedom alive".
Do not make this strategic mistake, it is not going to be easier going that road, on the contrary.
Enlighten yourselves again.