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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. What? by deutschemonte · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Wintel not co-operating?

    For SHOCK!

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  2. Re:It makes sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    what about LinuxBIOS

  3. Why is that important? by jalkipalki · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Why is that important?

  4. Re:"minus all the Hurd parts" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's right here.

  5. Re:9 hours since last article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Funny think is, I submitted just about the same story 12 hours ago.