Well said! It's worth noting though that there is Chromium OS, too, although I will be honest I've only ever used Chrome boxes that were machines with real (cl

Well said! It's worth noting though that there is Chromium OS, too, although I will be honest I've only ever used Chrome boxes that were machines with real (closed) ChromeOS on them. I didn't "jailbreak" any of them, I just put them into developer mode and turned off the image signature verifications. I too am not really sure that one can say legitimately an ARM box is more open than one of those AMT i7 Intel machines, regardless of what OS you put on it. You can't build your own ARM like you can build your own MIPS. (None of us plebes can legitimately build our own processors anyway, maybe you can, not me anyway.) I learned "how" in a Computer Architecture class 'I' and 'II', but only just enough to give me the sense that if I was on a large desert island with lots of natural resources and the only person left in the world, I might manage to have a rudimentary computer again before whenever the time I die... although I might have to reinvent a transistor and a semiconductor and some other things I didn't think of, first. That being said, ARM has patents, Intel has AMT, MIPS has the chinese government, I'm just glad there's still some kind of diversity because when we're running all the same identical Intel chips (or any of the competitors for that matter), we're all doomed.