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 -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
