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He’s pragmatic on that. He would prefer free ROM but knows getting hardware companies to do that is quite the uphill battle. ROM is generally hardware specific
by api 2y ago
He’s pragmatic on that. He would prefer free ROM but knows getting hardware companies to do that is quite the uphill battle.
ROM is generally hardware specific anyway so there is less benefit to it being free. Where else would you run it?
- immibis 2y agoROM is generally firmware for an embedded processor, and being able to modify that opens up new possibilities for the device i.e. more freedom. For example it might be possible to implement new offload features on a network card - the fact that no one bothers to do so doesn't mean the possibility shouldn't be there. I'd rather have the vendor put it in public domain or thereabouts, and make it editable. They're making money by selling the hardware anyway.