[coreboot] Free BIOS for personal computers and laptops - you will explode!

[bari]

ron minnich wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2008 1:07 PM, Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:
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>> BIOS is a part of the reliability and performance promise of the
>> hardware.  Chipset specifications at the level being discussed are
>> commonly considered proprietary by all silicon vendors, not just Intel.
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> There's the real issue. This is pretty much the same line they've
> taken for the last 7 years. And, actually, not true. Just look at AMD
> or the ARM or the powerpc or ...
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It's really just more FUD. If that was really the only reason they could 
release the specs and not offer support except for where they made 
errors in the data sheets. Problem solved.

-Bari