Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

[Gökşin Akdeniz]

>
> UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel
> binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/
> 

That's restriction is only for ARM devices which have a label that says
"Desgined for Windows8". In other words those devices can not boot
another os except Windows 8 due to secure boot option enabled by
default.

The short and the long of it Microsoft is copying Apple on tablets with
ARM.

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Gökşin Akdeniz <goksin.akdeniz at gmail.com>
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