On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Alex mr.nuke.me@gmail.com wrote:
[Broken record warning] What if, somehow, the community gathered a few brains, talked to a vendor, and convinced them to put coreboot on a yet-to-be-released product? It would almost seem like the community would do most of the work for free. What sort of responses have we received in the past with this approach? System 76, ThinkPenguin, Pudget, etc... have we tried any of them? They have sleek systems, and at least the first two value openness more than the average.
I've tried before with some of those guys They're not going to help because they are not designers. Below a fairly high level, they don't know what's in their systems. Sure, it's a nice shiny skin. But all the real work is done by the ODM.
This is a really hard problem. Google is the first company, aside from Linux NetworX, to really commit to a product that uses coreboot. It's been nice to see.
It bothers me that so few people know what's inside their computers, but maybe it should not: most people don't know how their cars work either. Maybe the days of really understanding your hardware are gone.
ron