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Google's Chromebook "Samus" Now Supported By Coreboot
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Right. Google knows how to design good hardware, they know Coreboot and it is in their self-interest to promote Linux use alongside their Chrome*/Android platforms as that usage will another growing wedge off Microsoft's efforts to retake control.
Chromebooks will benefit from economies of scale so if someone at Google could manage to convince the restriction-freak management to relax a bit and release the odd version of chromebook that 1) supports installing any 'reference' distro of Linux and 2) is easily expandable (with generally available standard hardware) they'd help themselves while also extending an olive branch to the community that has enabled their rise to power and wealth in the first place.
Of course OEMs could design such devices as well, unless Google has contractually restricted them from enabling their users.
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