The relevant firmware project to answer here is coreboot: My contributions range from technical contributions (see git log, ~3.5% of commits are mine, as poor a

The relevant firmware project to answer here is coreboot: My contributions range from technical contributions (see git log, ~3.5% of commits are mine, as poor a benchmark as that is) to support in our forums to documentation to behind-the-scenes work that keeps the community together or pushes back against even more blobs. As for "why more and more hardware needs closed firmware": In 2005, which PC started from open source firmware, outside select data center deployments?