Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 16:35:41 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> To: "Dave U. Random" <anonymous@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of? Message-ID: <CAHieY7S8ae4SkJyETAM3kuxuK9udXt%2BD%2BANPs9rvxdqh_h0e2Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d0d8129924f70fbd791ef9e3fb088e9b@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> References: <20120606182153.3cc2ee07.freebsd@edvax.de> <d0d8129924f70fbd791ef9e3fb088e9b@anonymitaet-im-inter.net>
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On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Dave U. Random <anonymous@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> wrote: > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > >> On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> > Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the >> > point is why should I have to pay anything to a third party in order to >> > run whatever OS I want on a piece of hardware I own? > > It's time to dump the Intel/Microshaft mafia forever. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, > NetBSD, and even Linux have ports to many platforms. Why stay on Intel? It's > an overgrown ugly mess. > > We need to stop buying Intel mafiaware with preinstalled Microshaft mafiware > and run a free (or in the case of Linux "apparently free") OS on free > hardware. > But this is more to do with the BIOS than with Intel as such. Wasn't there a FreeBIOS, later LinuxBIOS, now coreboot I believe..? So replacing the BIOS entirely wouldn't suffice to override all this nonsense?
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