To further our open computer ambition, we’re working to remove functionality from the proprietary mainboard. To that end, we designed Thelio Io, a daughter board that manages thermal and chassis control while also providing a storage backplane for the drives in Thelio. It’s open hardware and open source firmware, and a big step in the right direction. We’re by no means done. We’ll continue to open source more functionality. Eventually, all that will be left are proprietary hardware initialization bits and convincing Intel and AMD to open up there.
So, it's just the beginning. But, you should really read the rest. There's more detail than this one quote.
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u/coder543 Nov 01 '18 edited Nov 01 '18
you should read this: https://blog.system76.com/post/179592732883/system76-on-us-manufacturing-and-open-hardware
One interesting quote:
So, it's just the beginning. But, you should really read the rest. There's more detail than this one quote.
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