#7896 NORM Future : Can't do pretty boot without imposing unnecessary restrictions on users

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#7896: Can't do pretty boot without imposing unnecessary restrictions on users
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 Reporter:  gnu                  |         Owner:  wmb at firmworks.com
     Type:  defect               |        Status:  new              
 Priority:  normal               |     Milestone:  Future Release   
Component:  ofw - open firmware  |       Version:  Q2D16            
 Keywords:  blocks:?8.3.0        |   Next_action:  communicate      
 Verified:  0                    |     Blockedby:                   
 Blocking:                       |  
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 G1G1 is coming again, and it should be possible for OLPC to ship machines
 that do not try to enforce any kind of software lockdown, but which still
 look pretty when you boot them.

 This issue was swept under the rug by the pressure of time during the
 first G1G1, but it should be tracked and eventually fixed.

 OLPC shouldn't feel like it needs to prevent recipients from modifying
 their operating system, just so they can see pretty pictures when it
 boots, yet that was the decision process last time.

 OLPC seems dangerously close to believing that it always has to ship all
 its machines with "security" -- I put it in quotes because it is securing
 the machine against its owner.  Fixing the pretty-boot tie to "security"
 would start to make it possible to think heretical thoughts -- like
 shipping a machine that the user is free to customize without going
 through a dance to get a secret key.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7896>
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