[HAL9000]

The solution's pretty simple, though - if you find current mobos philosophically objectionable, go build your own, soup to nuts, and make your own BIOS to go with it.

Here's a much better solution - Get a Mac. It's 100% BIOS-free and uses Open Firmware instead. Unlike BIOS, it simply boots the machine without tracking or restricting the user.

[ShadowAce]

Uh--Open Firmware is a version of a BIOS.

Every computer uses a BIOS of some sort.

[MarkL]

Here's a much better solution - Get a Mac. It's 100% BIOS-free and uses Open Firmware instead. Unlike BIOS, it simply boots the machine without tracking or restricting the user.

Huh? The BIOS is where the bootstrap code is, and unless there's a bank of register switches hiding somewhere on the Mac for hand loading the bootstrap code (like I had to do on a DEC PDP-4 a long time ago), there's BIOS there somewhere.

And things must have changed tremendously over the years. Apple used to guard their BIOS code, as well as their architecture specifics very carefully, which is why there were only a very few licensed clones of Apple systems over the years. And I also remember when some of the Apple BIOS code was released on the Internet some years ago. Apple went APE!

Mark