Willing to buy a high-end, free-software-only laptop?

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jul 13, 2007 2:48 AM EDT
Mark Shuttleworth's blog; By Mark Shuttleworth
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With projects like Gobuntu and gNewSense aiming to provide a platform that is zealous about free software, the obvious question is “where can I run it?”. Pretty much any laptop you can buy today needs some sort of non-free bits to make the most of its hardware. Right now, software freedom isn’t a huge priority for most of the companies that make up components for the PC and laptop industry. To that end I’d like to build up a list of people would potentially buy a high-powered laptop if it were guaranteed to work completely with free software drivers and OpenBIOS.

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