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This article is not FUD and crap. The source of the numbers quoted is here: https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20with%20Linux.pdf https://s

by cure 9y ago

This article is not FUD and crap. The source of the numbers quoted is here: https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20with%20Linux.pdf https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20wit... I know Ron Minnich. He is one of the founders of the coreboot project. He's been at this (replacing proprietary firmware with a free software alternative) for a very long time and he knows what he is talking about.

cperciva 9y ago
But... replacing Minix with Linux wouldn't be replacing proprietary code with a free alternative. It would be replacing free software with a less free alternative.
- comatose 9y ago
  Your use of 'free' here is correct from the perspective of a developer working for intel, but as a user with a cpu running modified and previously opensource, but now closedsource, software it isn't applicable to me. GPL would have protected more of my freedom, provided they didn't just violate the GPL.
- cure 9y ago
  None of the four freedoms are available in this context, Minix as part of the Intel ME. cf. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html