Sunil Mohan Adapa’s Blog

BIOS should be Free Software. The rush for it is ever greater with big hardware companies doing all the nasty things like Treacherous Computing.

AMD vs. Intel was always a close pick for me with both of them appearing equally nice or evil. AMD always won because it turned out to be a bit cheaper most of the time. These days after the 64-bit race and the dual core race I was considering evaluating both of them again. However, AMD just got a big plus. It supported the LinuxBIOS project by co-operating with the developers. Intel did not do so. So I will undoubtedly choose AMD for its a matter of who controls my computer: me or some big US company.

Support the FSF campaign for a Free BIOS. Pick AMD, write to Intel about your decision and annouce your support to bios@gnu.org.

I wrote to Intel and said this:

Dear Intel,

Being a software engineer, I take software freedom very seriously.

Intel has not been cooperative with the LinuxBIOS project which aims
at creating a free BIOS. AMD has been coorperative. I shall pick AMD
CPUs and other products over Intel for this reason and will also
actively pursue my collegues to do so.
(http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html)

Please reconsider your stance.

–
Sunil Mohan

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