FSF wants to partner with hardware makers
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) yesterday released a paper entitled, "The road to hardware free from restrictions", detailing ways major hardware manufacturers with power in the market can work with the free software community to establish a "mutually beneficial relationship."
The paper recommends manufacturers take action in five areas: supporting free software drivers, ending the "Microsoft Tax", removing proprietary BIOS locks, supporting a free BIOS, and rejecting Digital Restrictions Management (DRM).
Peter Brown, FSF executive director, said, "With the growing utilisation of free software and the rejection of Microsoft's Vista, large vendors like HP, Dell, Lenovo and Sun have the opportunity and responsibility to acknowledge the market for hardware suitable for free software users.
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