From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 20:35:43 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 608661065688 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:35:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1723C8FC18 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:35:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhgm50 with SMTP id m50so6260156yhg.13 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:35:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=+bIerV045OaDZ2p4u11Gk80Ry4ndAkh6yHMWORZWvRc=; b=njhK7+UblQMiU/3H0yB5R9k3CwtYIejLy6win9LzFSPCPVwa8LdF6MnICdF8+VCZKm WmpCK4zYApm1+whizKwrx0sphfOqwmUNLiNpBnf3auSSmx59lJRgv7MyVdiW83ytu7M0 kiPtFJsagiSKZ+IRzUkc4ZrRIJzwoc3u0I/3iBXaBn7P0JXb9PsdpzMxNXWJy6ABaRQn 2mdzwswjMz8hz1b+HpgQvx1NMeYFQffQP7gcq+XjmObhLx/53QxINHXm0Oy5cyb0mKTY NlwshqCWI+BLwlhYtFKTHNw06kEZw+Rh9CW1tqbp+uXs1J/yL144Q2P/zgH1Z4yyitCn UI8Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.42.130 with SMTP id o2mr8184810igl.37.1339014941354; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.42.217.6 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 13:35:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20120606182153.3cc2ee07.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 16:35:41 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: v8jyb8wrCfWXMHyElL1ZajcwqDw Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: "Dave U. Random" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlj2ym7c7cKa7avmeECPfxxlPsJhzTseilIxvXU1lr6t2otHqA9Tv4h8y3LSSaRV5g4//Q4 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:35:43 -0000 On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Dave U. Random wrote: > Polytropon 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?