On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Dave U. Random <anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> wrote: > Polytropon <free...@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? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
