> What's in your BIOS? What's in your NIC's firmware? What's in the firmware of the router you're wire{d,lessly connected} to? What's in the microcode of your C

> What's in your BIOS? What's in your NIC's firmware? What's in the firmware of the router you're wire{d,lessly connected} to? What's in the microcode of your CPU? The BIOS and the microcode in the processor chip are essentially part of the hardware so they a different issue. I have no incomprehensible binaries installed on my machine. Ask me about whats in the any package I have installed and I can tell you with sudo apt-get source. Ask me what is stored in any file and I can get the documentation for the file format and tell you what you want to know. Nothing on my machine is the private property of an external organization. > What's running on Blogger, who's hosting your blog? My concern is for the integrity of personal property. I want my own personal items to be completely my property and not partially controlled by a corporate tyranny like Microsoft or Apple. This doesn't mean that every machine, including the machines at Google (which hosts my blog and which I use for searching), have to be run on free software, because those machines aren't my personal property they are corporate private property. > The personal computer is not the only software in the universe -- not even close. The difference is that PCs are personal property which is something that everyone has a right to. Microsoft, Apple, and other corporate tyrannies are using proprietary software to attack the right to personal property in the field of computing. > If the world wasn't wired the way it was, perhaps you'd have a shot at the utopia that you're envisioning; really, I do see the benefit. The point of my previous post is that I won't give up the utopia I already have not that I am "envisioning" something different from what already exists. I already have a machine that doesn't contain incomprehensible binary blobs and which can I can use sudo apt-get source to understand any component.