• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    I don’t get why OEMs aren’t all over Libreboot.

    Paying American Megatrends even a couple cents per board, is a cost that doesn’t result in a valuable product differentiator. Has anyone ever said “I’d buy that PC but the UEFI sucks?”

    Tweakers would love an open UEFI to build tools for ever more insane chipset register tweaks. Conversely, manufacturers would love the ability to theme everything with uniform branding and consistent experiences for large fleet deployment. I could even see kiosk designs that booted into a captive app right from ROM, no discs or network required. (You could get a PC that booted to DOS from ROM in the late '80s, surely we can top that today.