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Re:Richard Stallman: Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream' by jrockway on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @02:47PM (#2328834)
I thought it was the CPU microcode, not the BIOS? Because there are open source BIOSes that you can flash to a variety of more powerful machines.
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Re:Richard Stallman: Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream' by LXicon on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @03:39PM (#2329036)
you are probably correct. the article just mentioned the BIOS. i looked around and could not find specific mention of the microcode in the laptop's specs :http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/Freest#Lemote_Yee... or on Stallman's page : http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html or in this FSF paper page on free hardware: http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/how_hardware_vendors_can_hel...
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