[SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS vs other BIOS?

[Fred .]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Gleb Natapov <gleb at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 10:26:31PM +0200, Fred . wrote:
>> And in terms of standards compliance?
>>
>> I know proprietary BIOS have advantage when it comes to SMBIOS due to
>> the implementation in SeaBIOS lagging behind several versions.
>>
>> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
>> > Fred . wrote:
>> >> How is SeaBIOS working towards the non-technical goals of the project?
>> >
>> > This is not so clear. I'm not even sure that there are non-technical
>> > goals for the project.
>> >
>> > Competing with commercial BIOS products would require a company to
>> > put a SeaBIOS-based PC firmware to market, quite likely in concert
>> > with coreboot. I know of one company which offers among other things
>> > coreboot services, Sage Engineering, who are quite active in the
>> > coreboot community. http://www.se-eng.com/coreboot.html
>> >
>> > But even so you can see that the business model is different from
>> > commercial BIOS products, and already this small difference presents
>> > a non-technical challenge.
>>
>> SeaBIOS lacks documentation.
>> It lacks communication.
>> The website is not updated with news about the development.
>> There is no mention of what's new, whats planned, etc.
> Now I am curious what other BIOSes give you all that? In all that points
> Seabios in not different from most other open source project.
>
> --
>                        Gleb.

Perhaps other BIOS have private channels to make such communications
directly to their customers.
Or perhaps they don't need to due to having been in the BIOS game
pretty much since it started.

I think information, documentation, roadmaps, public announcements,
timely communication would be good.