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Comment by LooseMarmoset

7 hours ago

that’s great that you’ll let users have their own certificates and all, but the way this will be used is by corporations to lock us out into approved Linux distributions. Linux will be effectively owned by RedHat and Microsoft, the signing authority.

it will be railroaded through in the same way that systemD was railroaded onto us.

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