On a sunny day (Sun, 14 Dec 2003 07:49:31 -0500) it happened George Macdonald
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On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:16:14 -0500, "Carlo Razzeto"
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"Yousuf Khan" wrote in
message le.rogers.com...
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13087



Oh holy god in heaven... This is just one project I don't understand... It
seems to me as if BIOS costs aren't really driving up hardware development
costs significantly at all... What is the point? Just to be totally and
completely anti-establishment?

I think the point is that the "establishment" BIOS mfrs (is there more than
one left ?) have been Borged and thrown their cap in with TCG, TCPA, DMCA,
Palladium etc. You *do* know who's running that little show??

Do you really want to have to get a "Web-ticky" just to be able to power up
your own computer?

Rgds, George Macdonald
That may be one reason, I actually download the paper (is a link on that site)
and enjoyed reading it.
This thing seems to have its roots in large amounts of networked PCs that
did not have proper usable BIOS.
I like the line 'for al 960 PC write down BIOS setup values before BIOS upgrade,
then set it back....' that alone would be a very very good reason to write your own.
Will have to wait and see for the first DRM boxes if this helps in any way for that.
Note that Linux only needs the PCI tables to boot, and uses no real BIOS...
accesses the hardware directly.
Cool stuff, paper is very clearly written.
JP

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??