> You wanna tell me that using a proprietary BIOS is better than using  
> Coreboot?

That's not what I'm saying. Sure, maybe there's less proprietary
software with Coreboot installed but since Coreboot has adopted
proprietary software to support these, proprietary software's still
there either way.  Making an argument that it's "better" than 100%
proprietary isn't much of an a argument, I think, because the goal
should be to find something that can be used without any proprietary
software *anywhere.* 100% freedom, not 95% freedom or even 99.9% freedom.

> Sure, it has some bottlenecks but you should agree that using a  
> completely-free (even by Mr.Stallman's merits) computer with some
trouble is  
> better than buying a laptop, where you cannot get rid of the
non-free BIOS no 
> matter what.

Except that the Chromebooks don't fall into this category of being 
completely free: Coreboot has adopted binary blobs. Perhaps the free
software 
community needs a Coreboot-libre, where someone saying that "it runs 
Coreboot-libre" would be a way to know that the device can be used in
freedom.
With the adoption of binary blobs, saying "it runs Coreboot" doesn't mean 
anything anymore.

In addition, cryptographic signatures are in place to verify that these 
blobs are never modified. The addition of a crypto system makes things
far more difficult so, if anything, such crypto signatures take us
even further away from having freedom than a machine that doesn't use
such a thing and has only binary blobs.

I'm not saying binary blobs are any better - Either way you don't have
freedom - but what I am trying to say is that this huge task of
working to get freedom becomes even bigger, perhaps impossible, when
strong crypto is added to the mix.

> so I can recommend it to others

If you're going to recommend something, it should be something that is 
actually possible to use in complete freedom in practive. While no
means the only 
example, my ThinkPad X60s with Coreboot would be one example. In this 
case no binary blobs from Coreboot are needed.

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