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Welcome YA free BIOS project

Welcome YA free BIOS project

Posted Jun 2, 2004 19:55 UTC (Wed) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Welcome YA free BIOS project by aaron
Parent article: Intel to open source EFI firmware code

I belive thats the all "Bull" in this issue we could discuss, the reasons behind this move of the openly declared nÂș1 enemy of the Linux/FOSS movement...

... perhaps this EFI project was so Microsoft centered,... and being so..., so fundamentaly broken, that Microsoft and Intel decided to experiment with a real open source method to see if it can be fixed...

... and that shift is remarkable from any way you look at it, more even so because is such a fundamental "piece of code"...if it can't boot you can't even debugg...

... i dont trust Microsoft, and my "felling" is that nobody should, but if they start to push it heavly with Intel, then we cant bet that every motherboard manufactor is going to have it... so how safe is to "participate" and "focus" in it ?... Linux on EFI, how is going to be ?...

Simple fair questions that tryes to focus on the "Bull", instead of the "waving tail" of tagging conspiracys.


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Welcome YA free BIOS project

Posted Jun 2, 2004 22:10 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

i dont trust Microsoft
But this is Intel.

Welcome YA free BIOS project

Posted Jun 3, 2004 9:41 UTC (Thu) by XERC (guest, #14626) [Link]

.., the Micro$oft's strategic alliance partner.

Not to mention, Intel is a CLOSED hardware provider.
More information about OPEN hardware can be found from:
http://www.opencores.org/

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