I'm a little perplexed by your staunch opposition to AMD. And let me just
say, I'm in no way an AMD loyalist (I currently run 0 AMD machines).
But who is the greater evil:
1. Intel, who actively works against liberating one of the most essential
components of a computer (the BIOS) i.e. coreboot, and who implements hard
wired code to spy on its users, a draconian and something of an Orwellian
development - but they have free video drivers.
OR
2. AMD, who supports liberating the BIOS, and currently has no plans and no
CPU that implements hardwired spyware in silicon to subjugate its users, and
has a 95% liberated video stack? (That remaining 5%, the kernel driver, is
the most valuable piece that needs to be freed).
And let's not forget the unethical business tactics that intel has used over
the last 20 years in order to monopolize the x86 market, and expand
proprietary software with the windows/intel (wintel) marketing strategy.
With respect, I'm not so sure that the ethical superiority of intel is so
clear as you make it.
