On Mon, 9 May 2005, Ken Fuchs wrote:

> Please support Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) BIOSes such as 
> LinuxBIOS, before it's too late.  Future BIOSes will execute only 
> authenticated executables.  Will GNU/Linux be one of the authenticated 
> operating systems?

Wow.  That is a disturbing suggestion.  Is that really in the works? 
I'll tell you one thing for sure -- I won't buy any motherboards that 
cannot run Linux.

Mike