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FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft's GitHub to Protest Windows 11's Requiring TPM 2.0
TPM is a dedicated chip or firmware enabling hardware-level security, housing encryption keys, certificates, passwords, and sensitive data, "and shielding them from unauthorized access," Microsoft senior product manager Steven Hosking wrote last month, declaring TPM 2.0 to be "a non-negotiable stand...
But last week the Free Software Foundation's campaigns manager delivered a message on the FSF's official blog: " Keep putting pressure on Microsoft." They have the advertising budget to claim that they "love Linux" (sic), not to mention the money and political willpower to corral free software developers from around the world on their nonfree platform Microsoft GitHub. This year's International Day Against DRM took aim at one specific injustice: their requiring a hardware TPM module for users being forced to "upgrade" to Windows 11.
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