Stallman Calls For Action on Free BIOS

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 28, 2005 @01:04AM 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."

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Re:You can't eliminate companies by qwasty · 2005-02-28 06:35 · 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.