+1 On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:07:51AM -0400, Bobby Powers wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I don't mind if the G1G1 donors have the option to participate in >> > testing secured laptops, but I utterly reject the notion that we can >> > jerk customer/donors around like this without their permission in >> > advance. They _will_ complain publicly. >> >> While it is a SMALL hassle, I don't understand how it is jerking >> customers around before they've even bought a machine. As long as the >> policy (whatever it turns out to be) is clearly stated on the >> wiki/amazon site, by purchasing a laptop they are consenting to this. >> >> With that said, I would probably lean towards preferring unsecured >> machines (with pretty boot enabled, of course). >> > > Such small hassles, when repeated across hundreds of thousands of > people, tend to eat up a lot of time. We should be trying to save users > this time. > > I think we have sufficiently utilized G1G1 users to test our security > system. My general perception is this test demonstrated that a > significant fraction of users want unlocked laptops so that they can do > interesting things. Even if the average user doesn't care about what an > unlocked laptop allows them to do, what is the harm in shipping > developer keys on all the G1G1 laptops? > > We'll save everyone who wants to install non-standard builds the time > required to learn about and obtain developer keys. We'll save the > support costs required to process and answer all the queries about > developer keys. And we'll reduce the infrastructural costs of managing > the generation of the keys. > > Erik > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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