A suggestion for a campaign

Such a list would be cool. One can only hope it would be reason enough for the manufacturers to start producing hardware in cooperation with the projects like coreboot or rockbox.

Great idea. How do we get started?

Just FYI AMD is starting to use coreboot on it's products (http://blogs.amd.com/work/2011/05/05/an-update-on-coreboot/)

That's great news, now we only need a video card with fully free drivers that will run on a board with an AMD CPU.

Count with me.

El dom, 02-10-2011 a las 08:50 +0200, name at domain escribió:
> I would like to suggest a campaign to produce free software based consumer
> products such as digital audio players (e.g. supported by Rockbox), cameras
> and laptops (e.g. supported by coreboot).
>
> The FSF has a campaign for a free BIOS, but without a long list of people who
> wish to purchase a computer with a free BIOS I cannot see any of the OEMs
> producing such a computer.
>
> What is needed is getting at least 100 thousand signatures of people who
> require that their next laptop will support a free BIOS or requiring that
> their next digital audio player or camera will only use free software that
> can be replaced without voiding the warranty.
>
> I believe that the recent news regarding Windows 8 requiring signed
> bootloaders is a good opportunity for the free software community to obtain a
> large number of signatures to promote this cause.
>
> It should be noted that there is a company that produces professional cameras
> running free software called Eiphel, but their cameras are too expensive for
> consumers who are not professionals and are looking for cheap cameras.
>