Canonical and Red Hat have differing views on UEFI: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/shuttleworth-on-ubuntu-linux-fedora-and-the-uefi-problem/11270 by my fav blogger.
SVJN? lol. For those who appreciate dementia, some of his articles are "must read". I agree with what this apparently wise person commented about him: Rofl. BTW, this article from him that you linked follows the trend. SVJN can't get into his head the simple and obvious fact that Secure Boot isn't a feature of Windows 8, but a feature of the latest version of the UEFI spec. And that every vendor that joined/joins the UEFI Forum (including IBM) committed to support the latest version of the UEFI spec. See: http://www.uefi.org/home/
No No, I'll continue reading. SVJN's blog gives me good laughs sometimes - especially the comments of reasonable people that he seems to ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ everytime. SVJN got a talent for that.