On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Ben de Groot
<yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
On 15 June 2012 12:45, Arun Raghavan <
ford_prefect@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH <
gregkh@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty.
>>
>> Minor details like, "do we have a 'company' that can pay Microsoft to
>> sign our bootloader?" is one aspect from the non-technical side that I've
>> been wondering about.
>
> Sounds like something the Gentoo Foundation could do.
I'm certainly not the only one who would be averse to paying Microsoft
any ransom money.
Last I heard Verisign was handling the signing certs, but that also doesn't mean MS isn't getting a cut of the profit.