[ale] Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

[Lightner, Jeff]

Uh-oh – Now the tin foil hat paranoids are going to remind us Systemd is a plot for world domination.   Silly people think the d at the end of Systemd is for “daemon” but *they* KNOW it is for “domination”.


From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 4:38 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

While the original gummiboot sources are gone, the code still exists but was merged into everyone's favorite tool: systemd

https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Gummiboot-Is-Dead

So Linux systems still have a EUFI boot tool but it's part of systemd as SD-boot. Looks like the entire code base was dumped in and renamed SD-boot. The original author worked on both projects.

I have not used it nor have I poked at it.

ArchLinux has more info on  using it

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-boot

Sort of like when serial mice were dropped from the kernel.


On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 16:23 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:26:39 -0600

Preston <preston.lists at gmail.com<mailto:preston.lists at gmail.com>> wrote:





Very disappointed with this:



"Up until recently, the Linux Foundation allowed the individual

members to elect two board members and ensure that the voice of Linux

community is considered at the board meetings. In a shocking change,

the Foundation has erased this clause and decided to benefit the

corporate companies rather that whole community."





http://fossbytes.com/why-linux-foundations-latest-change-is-a-bad-new-for-open-source/



Preston





This surprises me not one bit. Linux Foundation is organized for big

corporations, not for the unpaid developers and non-corporate users who

built Linux in the first place. Here's a quote from Wikipedia:



============================================================

Its funding comes primarily from its Platinum Members: Fujitsu, HP,

IBM, Intel, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm, and Samsung and for many years

Hitachi.[23] These nine each having a representative on the Board of

Directors, they hold a majority on the 16-person board.[24]

============================================================



What I find quite scary about this is that the Linux Foundation

possesses one of the few all-distro methods to boot with Secure Boot.

The microsecond their major contributors decide an all-distro method to

boot Secure Boot is contrary to their bottom line, none of us have an

all-distro method, unless we find the last version, and fork it.



According to gummiboot Wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummiboot_(software) :



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In May 2015, gummiboot was fully integrated into systemd to form its

systemd-boot component that serves as a UEFI boot manager.[2][3]

Following this action, the source code repository of gummiboot was

emptied out in July 2015.

=============================================================



"The source code repository of gummiboot was emptied out in July 2015."



Makes it just a little harder to fork, doesn't it?



From where I stand, corporate Linux will foreclose user choice if such

foreclosure enhances the corporation's bottom line.



Unless you own or are paid by a big corporation, Linux Foundation is

not your friend.



SteveT



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