On 11/20/2013 03:29 AM, Patrick Georgi wrote:
Microsoft money gets returned (even if it's just $30). Norton paid money to get installed (it's a 30 days demo for a reason). You won't get around the IBV fees with this model, I grant that.
How exactly do you get the software fees back without suing?
The proposal is for a market study - of which I wouldn't be too optimistic anyway. People would find something to gripe over to dismiss any such project anyway (so they can continue to buy Apple gear with good conscience).
Would you pay $1000 for a Pavilion 14 chromebook if it came with a full-HD display, bigger SSD, and coreboot+SeaBIOS ?
Point being, if this is just a market study, is, either the prices will have to be insane, or the researches loses tons of money.
Why would an individual or company trying this on kickstarter require a coreboot non-profit?
Income taxes.
With which you (according to your theory above) stated that you have no problem with ME firmware and closed source memory init. And now we have FSP. Great job.
You first need to raise awareness about coreboot, before going into the details. If I started describing the Levi-Civita connection on d-dimensional manifolds, without first talking at length about the geometry of surfaces in 3-space, you'd call me a mad man.
Alex