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You're making FSF's point

You're making FSF's point

Posted Sep 30, 2011 13:24 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: You're making FSF's point by coriordan
Parent article: Papering over a binary blob

I don't know. My daughter has an HP netbook than boots very fast (from ROM?) into a mini-environment (capable enough for web browsing, Skype, simple document editing AFAIU). So placing the OS into ROM isn't too far fetched nowadays. Google's ChromeOS points into that same direction.


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