Compelling might be an understatement! They actually have a lot of outstanding points to consider. Yes, the idea of Open Source BIOS may sound insane to some. But to companies like Phoenix, the logic is there for those who wish to see it.

BIOS giant Phoenix, the company responsible for the pieces of code saved on flash memory and which initialize our computers and interfaces to the hardware at the low level -even before the OS loads, is giving us plenty of reasons to support the case of an open source BIOS.

It all started when I reviewed the Simpledrive Mini, a four gigabytes, USB 2.0 microdrive. The drive is capable of booting, if the system supports “USB 2.0 mass storage” devices. My Athlon 64 notebook was manufactured in early 2005 so that makes it about one year old. Yet, it wouldn’t boot from USB 2.0 devices. Source: The Inquirer

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