The article seems to promote lab grown method of planting over shoot from parent based method. Ideally the shoot from plants would be much better because if one plantation gets affected it might not affect the other plantations as they are not shared and there is a vast distribution of the same variety.
The ease of implementing secure boot is proportional to the seriousness and closeness between motherboard manufacturers, OEMs and operating system companies. That is something MS has in abundance but linux organizations very much less so.
