This whitepaper makes the case that UEFI firmware and more specifically EDK2 based solutions, be it open or the more ubiquitous closed ones, hurt business by driving up cost and delaying time to market, while at the same time are the root cause of more and more security problems. This whitepaper will contrast this UEFI status quo with other existing solutions like LinuxBoot in combination with coreboot, which fully embrace open source development, are scoring better on all those metrics. This...