* Robert Millan rmh@aybabtu.com [070829 17:37]:
I don't mean to start a flame but, uhm well I'll have to take the risk :-)
Have you considered the possiblity that LinuxBIOS is used for Tivoization?
There are certain applications where you do not want the user to be able to change the software running on a device. Like most things, this can be used for good and for bad.
But it does not need LinuxBIOS to do bad things, nor is LinuxBIOS specifically designed to enable people doing them.
Like vendors could use LinuxBIOS for Tivoization, a friendly government could build a nuke controlled by an embedded system which is started by LinuxBIOS because systems really should be operational in less than a second. Creating innovation is not an appropriate method to prevent such things. Sure it does not aid them either.
The opposite... if people do it with LinuxBIOS, we know at least what happens ;)
my 0.02€
Stefan