On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Alex mr.nuke.me@gmail.com wrote:
You make a very good point; however, I think we can all agree usability comes before novelty, no matter how much in love we are with novelty.
So, I repeat: you're setting the requirements as you are because you don't consider openness down to the hardware level a usability feature, you consider it a novelty feature.
That's you. And in fact it's most of the Linux community. It's why it's so hard to make progress in this area, because the Linux community does *not* consider openness down to the hardware level as a priority, when measured against their other wants.
Which, I have to say, sets all my "Irony-detection" devices to 11 out of 10. :-)
In many other cases, coreboot *is* a key usability feature (hence the many chromebooks being sold) and in those cases, it is a very high priority, if not the highest priority.
And, yes, you and I are both broken records where vendors are concerned. But vendors don't set priorities by anything but how many million units get sold. They don't care what we think :-)
ron