"I seriously do not understand why everybody has rolled over so hard on this issue."
It is the same reason that Linus Torvalds and plenty of other people have no problem with TiVO, or even see it as a success. A lot of people in the open source community do not subscribe to the free software philosophy. For a lot of people, as long as they can boot Linux by some means and continue to hack, there is no problem, even if Microsoft's signing key is required in that process.
Plenty of people also live in a state of denial about the bootloader restrictions. They do not believe that Microsoft would ever deny anyone the ability to turn the restrictions off, or that Microsoft would otherwise prevent us from running GNU/Linux. How anyone can trust Microsoft to not abuse its power is a mystery to me, but there are lots of people here on HN who seem to have such trust.
At this point, I do not think there is any debate about the FSF's stance on the open source movement:
I don't think the issue is the same as tivo, ie people have no problem getting locked out of their devices, I think the problem is that people are being deceived by the smokescreen that secure boot can (currently) be disabled (Through undefined, and very commonly broken/buggy mechanisms).
It is the same reason that Linus Torvalds and plenty of other people have no problem with TiVO, or even see it as a success. A lot of people in the open source community do not subscribe to the free software philosophy. For a lot of people, as long as they can boot Linux by some means and continue to hack, there is no problem, even if Microsoft's signing key is required in that process.
Plenty of people also live in a state of denial about the bootloader restrictions. They do not believe that Microsoft would ever deny anyone the ability to turn the restrictions off, or that Microsoft would otherwise prevent us from running GNU/Linux. How anyone can trust Microsoft to not abuse its power is a mystery to me, but there are lots of people here on HN who seem to have such trust.
At this point, I do not think there is any debate about the FSF's stance on the open source movement:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....