What you raise a technical issues, and some of it seems to be a distraction: 3D acceleration, for example, is generally problematic no matter where you look, although that's improving, but really that's an orthogonal issue to the BIOS.
The free software movement's not about technical things, and is not trying to make the argument that we can make things technically better by being free. Some people look for freedom. Others look for convenience and only use free things when they are convenient. Your response helps to clarify positions there: We're looking for different things. I'm reminded of this little blurb: http://aws.bluehome.net/better.oga I selected the ThinkPad X60s because it's supported by Coreboot and I was actually present at the Coreboot Install Party at the FSF's LibrePlanet conference. That's when Coreboot was installed on my laptop.
