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Stallman Calls For Action on Free BIOS

Posted by Hemos on from the fighting-the-good-fight dept.

Dolda2000 writes "Seeking to achieve 100% software freedom, RMS is now calling for action for a free BIOS. From the article: "The most uncooperative company is Intel, which has started a sham 'open source' BIOS project. The software consists of all the unimportant parts of of a BIOS, minus the hard parts. It won't run, and doesn't bring us any closer to a BIOS that does. It is just a distraction. By contrast, AMD cooperates pretty well." For reference, there are currently two projects for a free BIOS that I know of: LinuxBIOS and OpenBIOS."

5 of 487 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It makes sense by drooling-dog · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's very nice that you're supporting a family, but that fact no more gives you the right to steal other people's code than it gives me to rob the local convenience store. If you want to own proprietary code, the way to do that is to write it yourself - and license it as restrictively as you wish - or buy it from someone who has already done that. That's the way it worked before the GPL, and that's the way it works still.

  2. Heh. by Aldric · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Stallman doesn't have ANY room to talk about software that is taking a long time to develop.

  3. Re:It makes sense by gwalcharian · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Heh. Newsflash ace, I make over 80k a year getting paid to write software and design web service solutions, and that's living in the boonies of upstate NY, so go suck an egg. Guess is you're a troll, but I don't really care.

    Truthfully, this is my first real post on /. after being a long time casual reader (I check the top level page and only go in depth if seomthing really strikes me as interesting). This is in part to get a better understanding, but it is also in part to get a a better feel for /. as a community.

    So far the responses have all been critical, but insightful and informative, not derogatory, until yours. Congrats!

  4. Re:You can't eliminate companies by qwasty · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The GPL is a heavy-handed, no compromise approach. It demands pretty much everything in order to be part of the GPL "club". The Zesiger license offers room to breath for those who participate in open source with the condition that they have to be able to earn a living while doing it.

  5. odd that RMS would care by XO · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I can't imagine RMS actually lowering himself to the heights of the rest of most users, and actually using an Intel box, so why would he care?

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