[ltp] tpm chip

[Paul Kimoto]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:19:50AM +0100, Flavio Visentin wrote:
> RMS was here in Italy just last week. At the conference I attended, he
> was using a smart phone (with a closed source software) and a classic
> notebook (with a closed source bios). It seems to me that he trusts
> his phone and PC vendors

In Belgium, though, he called for a free (libre) BIOS.  

: once in a while the manufacturer suggests installing another BIOS, which
: is available only as an executable. This, clearly, is installing a
: non-free program--it is just as bad as installing Microsoft Windows, or
: Adobe Photoshop, or Sun's Java Platform. As the unethical practice of
: installing another BIOS executable becomes common, the version delivered
: inside the computer starts to raise an ethical problem issue as well.

[...]

: The FSF uses laptops donated by IBM over the past few years. This was one
: among several ways IBM cooperated with the GNU Project. But the
: cooperation is incomplete: when I asked for the specifications necessary
: to make LinuxBIOS run on these laptops, IBM refused--citing, as the
: reason, the enforcement of "trusted computing"

http://www.fsf.org/news/freebios.html