You may be rolling an obscure flavor of Linux on your new laptop and sporting a Free Software Foundation bumper sticker on your bio-diesel powered V-Dub, but chances are your open-source laptop isn't really that "free," thanks to closed firmware binaries hidden deep inside hardware itself.
That’s something Purism says it has finally cracked with its Librem 15, a laptop that embraces free and open-source software and is currently conducting a crowdfunding campaign. The Librem may be the only laptop sold with a modern Intel CPU that doesn't rely on proprietary firmware to boot up.
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