I am personally of the opinion we cannot trust corporations to look after our best interests as a species. They will look after a handful of people to excess, but abuse the rest of the population for profit.<p>That said, is there any path forward for open source/free:<p>* CPUs
* Motherboard BIOS/CMOS
* Firmware in proprietary devices<p>Thoughts? Am I the only one getting a bit peeved with wealthy corps trampling on the tragedy of the commons and us as a species?
You are not alone. The CoreBoot (<a href="https://www.coreboot.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.coreboot.org/</a>) project is maintained by programmers who would agree with you.<p>The main problem with opensource BIOS is the need to understand several proprietary interfaces.<p>As for the CPU, have a look at the RISC-V project (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V</a>). I have seen links to implementations but I can't find them at the moment.<p>You might want to consider systems built using ARM processors instead of Intel. There are several proprietary backdoors in Intel CPUs.
> Am I the only one getting a bit peeved with wealthy corps trampling on the tragedy of the commons and us as a species?<p>You can find more of your kind. Take a loot at libreboot, for example.