>That 32k BootROM isn't free in your example. It's a ROM. Read only. https://www.fsf.org/news/freebios.html https://www.fsf.org/news/freebios.html "The BIOS

>That 32k BootROM isn't free in your example. It's a ROM. Read only. https://www.fsf.org/news/freebios.html https://www.fsf.org/news/freebios.html "The BIOS was impossible to replace because it was stored in ROM: the only way to to put in a different BIOS was by replacing part of the hardware. In effect, the BIOS was itself hardware--and therefore didn't really count as software. It was like the program that (we can suppose) exists in the computer that (we can suppose) runs your watch or your microwave oven: since you can't install software on it, it may as well be circuits, not a computer at all." Edit: >ROMs can still be backdoored, which is the point of this discussion. You said it wasn't free, and when proven wrong, you moved the goalpost. Since I'm a wrongthinker who can only post once every hour or two on this site, I'm done discussing this with you. If you want to try to convince people that a 32K ROM is the same as IntelME, then you're not worth my time anyway.