[coreboot] Coreboot Purism BIOS is free? open?

[Philipp Stanner]

I don't get it, too. ME has nothing to do with what you can do with your machine and what it can perform.

Even if 90% of users use their machine for multimedia purposes...


Am 24. Dezember 2017 14:02:41 MEZ schrieb echelon at free.fr:
>Yes Peter....
>But what has Netflix (or Sony, or the entertainment industry in
>general...) to LEGALLY gain by strongarming Intel/AMD to keep ME/PSP
>activated on all x86 platforms (not only consumer ones!..)?
>(I can see other motivations.. but I keep the hypothesis that the
>entertainment industry has only morally acceptable principles in
>dealing with the cpu manufacturers..)
>No matter if the "user" (can we anymore speak about "owner"?..) intends
>to "watch Netflix in high resolution" or not al all?
>Excuse me but I insist : REALLY for >50% of the PC users nowadays the
>primary usage of their PC is to whatch Netflix (or play (legally..)
>acquired games)?.. I'm waiting for the stats..
> Florentin
>
>
>----- Mail d'origine -----
>De: Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>
>À: coreboot at coreboot.org
>Envoyé: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:00:03 +0100 (CET)
>Objet: Re: [coreboot] Coreboot Purism BIOS is free? open?
>
>Ivan Ivanov wrote:
>> Could it be the requirement of US Government - for all the consumer
>> CPU to have backdoors ?
>
>I guess that the private sector is a much stronger force...
>
>
>Nico Huber wrote:
>> watch Netflix in high resolution
>
>
>//Peter
>
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