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The real solutionThe real solutionPosted May 24, 2006 14:01 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: The real solution by h2 Parent article: Kororaa and the GPL - Update 1 There's a certain irony to the fact that in order to use a gpl graphics driver you are forced into buying a board/processor from half of the famed 'wintel' cartel. Yes, and in some other matters Intel seems to be part of the problem, as seen here: The most uncooperative company is Intel, which has started a sham "open source" BIOS project. The software consists of all the unimportant parts of of a BIOS, without the hard parts. It won't run, and doesn't bring us any closer to a BIOS that does run. It is just a distraction. By contrast, AMD has been cooperating by releasing major chunks of their BIOS source code and making their technical experts available. (Quote from from http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html). So who should I boycot? Wouldn't it be lovely if there were a hardware company that just concentrated on making the best hardware possible and helping developers to write the best possible drivers for it, not just the big companies...
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The real solution Posted May 26, 2006 3:09 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] You need to choose your fights.
Decent Free video drivers on a decent video card is much more important for a Free Desktop then a a Free BIOS.
Also motherboards supporting bios replacements (generally Tyan type things) are pretty much unaffordable. The ability to use a Free BIOS replacement is technically only a boon for people doing things like clustering or need instant-boot-up. The video drivers are more important and Intel helps with them with documentation and such.
As far as open source drivers go, Intel is pretty decent.
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