From the article (BTW, this is the *only* mention of BIOS in the arcticle): "However, I think that development of a free BIOS is particularly important. The main obstacle is that computer manufacturers have not released all the information necessary to do the work. We are looking for companies willing to cooperate with the community in this way."
All that he's saying is that the hardware manufacturers make the information freely available. All that he wants is that people who own computers know what's going on inside a BIOS, just like every geek wants to know what's happening inside the kernel s/he's using. There's nothing wrong in expecting that! He's *not* asking hardware manufacturers to give away the BIOS for free!
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It's January 7, 2004!
From the article (BTW, this is the *only* mention of BIOS in the arcticle):
"However, I think that development of a free BIOS is particularly important. The main obstacle is that computer manufacturers have not released all the information necessary to do the work. We are looking for companies willing to cooperate with the community in this way."
All that he's saying is that the hardware manufacturers make the information freely available. All that he wants is that people who own computers know what's going on inside a BIOS, just like every geek wants to know what's happening inside the kernel s/he's using. There's nothing wrong in expecting that! He's *not* asking hardware manufacturers to give away the BIOS for free!
Free as in Freedom and not as in free beer. It would do the open source community much good if the word "open" is used consistently instead of "free".
1. Submit a story about the fraud website to /.. Thanks to the lame lameness filter, it makes its way as news. *ducks*
/.ers click on the link.
2. Zillions of
3. Profit!
Okay, agreed that the fraud website goes down for a while....