Shuttleworth Wants To Get Rid of Proprietary Firmware

jones_supa writes "In a new blog post, the Ubuntu main man Mark Shuttleworth calls for an end to proprietary firmwares such as ACPI. His reasoning is that running any firmware code on your phone, tablet, PC, TV, wifi router, washing machine, server, or the server running the cloud your SAAS app is running on, is a threat vector against you, and NSA's best friend. 'Arguing for ACPI on your next-generation device is arguing for a trojan horse of monumental proportions to be installed in your living room and in your data center. I've been to Troy, there is not much left.' As better solutions, Shuttleworth suggests delivering your innovative code directly to the upstream kernel, or using declarative firmware that describes hardware linkages and dependencies but doesn't include executable code."

Comments

Source codes, legos, meccanos

[Hognoxious]

Mark Shuttleworth calls for an end to proprietary firmwares

Well I call for an end to spurious pluralization, so there!

I can't see this happening.

[allaunjsilverfox2]

Perfect example would be dell bios. There is no way DELL would allow a USER into bios. Especially one that might cause issues that can't be condensed into auto-replies.

Re:Possesion

[fahrbot-bot]

So how did RMS posses Shuttleworth's body?

There's an obscure clause deep down in the GPL ...