https://www.fsf.org/news/freebios.html"You can help our campaign by buying AMD CPU chips and not buying Intel, and by publishing statements about what you're doing. Likewise, buy motherboards that support free BIOS. See http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html for information on which companies cooperate and which models and motherboards are supported.
When you do this, tell your friends and your coworkers. And please tell us, too--please write to mailto:bios@gnu.org to tell us that you have chosen what to buy because it supports a free BIOS.
You can also help our campaign by writing to manufacturers such as Intel, saying they ought to cooperate with a fully free BIOS. Calm but strong disapproval, coupled with stating an intention to take action accordingly, is more effective than venting rage. Please send a copy of your message to mailto:bios@gnu.org, so we can monitor the support for this campaign. The more mail they get, the more effect, so please do add your voice to ours.
We would like to offer positive inducements as well as pressure. Our idea is to endorse, for a period of time, the first manufacturer in a given category of machine (for instance, laptops) that cooperates fully with free BIOS. To make this offer effective, we would like to collect a long list of people who say they intend to make their choices according to our endorsements. See http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html for how to add your name to this campaign.
Once this campaign has built up strength, we will publicize offers of endorsements and begin inviting manufacturers to accept them. We will ask for your help at every step."
Thought this might interest someone. In particular I'd recommend reading his article about trusted computing.
R.
