On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Alex <[email protected]> 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 -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
