[Trisquel-users] A suggestion for a campaign

[alonivtsan]

I would like to suggest a campaign to produce free software based consumer  
products such as digital audio players (e.g. supported by Rockbox), cameras  
and laptops (e.g. supported by coreboot).

The FSF has a campaign for a free BIOS, but without a long list of people who  
wish to purchase a computer with a free BIOS I cannot see any of the OEMs  
producing such a computer.

What is needed is getting at least 100 thousand signatures of people who  
require that their next laptop will support a free BIOS or requiring that  
their next digital audio player or camera will only use free software that  
can be replaced without voiding the warranty.

I believe that the recent news regarding Windows 8 requiring signed  
bootloaders is a good opportunity for the free software community to obtain a  
large number of signatures to promote this cause.

It should be noted that there is a company that produces professional cameras  
running free software called Eiphel, but their cameras are too expensive for  
consumers who are not professionals and are looking for cheap cameras.