> With open hardware that you fully and completely own when you buy it Unless you lose the password to unlock the BIOS. Which is not resettable via the (now v

> With open hardware that you fully and completely own when you buy it Unless you lose the password to unlock the BIOS. Which is not resettable via the (now very old) method of removing the CMOS battery or shorting a jumper on the motherboard for at least a decade. (I had this issue on a HP Elitebook 8440p from 2011)