Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 08, 2006 05:50 AM
I really hate to see one man, let alone a larger group, spend SEVEN YEARS developing a Basic Input Output System(BIOS). That's a really long time to spend doing something fairly small and, I'm sorry, insignificant in the grand scheme of things. BIOSes became bit players when IBM's original PC BIOS was initially reverse engineered. And that didn't take SEVEN YEARS.
This is all made even worse when one realizes that this BIOS, SEVEN YEARS in the making, will never see mainstream adoption.
Think about it. All of the world's largest computer manufacturers already have their own BIOSes and have no motivation to change that. Especially not to a BIOS that takes SEVEN YEARS to develop to a 1.0 version.
Can I get a Dell or HP computer with this BIOS on it? No. Can I flash a a Dell or HP system with this BIOS to bypass DRM/TCP or some other advantage? No. Can I get support for a system that I have managed to overwrite the factory BIOS with this BIOS? No. Foregoing factory support, will the developers of this BIOS be responsive in updating and repairing defects in this BIOS that might impare my system? No.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 08, 2006 05:50 AMThis is all made even worse when one realizes that this BIOS, SEVEN YEARS in the making, will never see mainstream adoption.
Think about it. All of the world's largest computer manufacturers already have their own BIOSes and have no motivation to change that. Especially not to a BIOS that takes SEVEN YEARS to develop to a 1.0 version.
Can I get a Dell or HP computer with this BIOS on it? No.
Can I flash a a Dell or HP system with this BIOS to bypass DRM/TCP or some other advantage? No.
Can I get support for a system that I have managed to overwrite the factory BIOS with this BIOS? No.
Foregoing factory support, will the developers of this BIOS be responsive in updating and repairing defects in this BIOS that might impare my system? No.
Why would anyone spend 7 years on this???...
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