IOW, the problem would have been avoided by the distributor
allowing the
owner to turn off secure boot or add his own
keys.
You're assuming that the distributor is actually making
the motherboard
and firmware.
More likely, they are an OEM assembling
generic parts.
Let's face it, secure boot isn't a problem if it is easily
turned off - the
worry is that because of the market dominance of Windows there
is no
particular incentive for motherboard makers to make it easy, or even
possible
to do this on their mass-market motherboards. The choice for OEMs
could be
- live with secure boot or use a more expensive 'specialist'
motherboard that
makes your product uncompetetive.
Also the typical
end-user (a) isn't competent to change motherboard
firmware settings, or manage
keys, and (b) isn't going to like the idea of
disabling a security
setting. So
this 'feature' will only be there to satisfy geeks and GPL lawyers -
and no OEM
is going to want to increase costs for that.
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