Hello there again,
Yes.....proprietary BIOS per vendor. Some vendors have wider reaching "over-shawl" of many manufacturers. It's complex.
When you study computing (to degree level) several times you .......you start to appreciate these complex distributions of global hardware.
So for example, there are approx about "one hundred motherboard" manufacturer's on earth.....(seen the list). Though not nearly so many BIOS
creators, because that code ownership "contractually" over-rides the user OS
and all manufacturers of hardware that agree on those global distribution rights.
see previous post.
When you consider that there are likely factors of many many many trillions of x86 pc's you can start to get a bigger picture.
So , when you look at global hardware 99 percent of the time it's embossed with
a emblem similar to the letters UR......in reverse.
THat is the corporation that deal with the "underwriting" and the Risk of developing new hardware at such attempts and prophecy to "finance" the endeavour.
mostly that is something that end corporations and consumers never suffer.
It always falls to much higher levels (corporate) to decide how much
responsibility they want in the ownership and Intellectual Property Rights.
Some can use Seabios. That is open and works on x86 hardware.
The American Megatrends is one of the largest. BIOS vendors. THey product
the hardware chips and the software inside. [[Firmware actually (middleware)]]
There is also Energy Star Bios. .....very large manufacturer.
.......in times of old we made bios as part of earlier than degree studies and they were for dedicated computers inside consumer electronics such as interfaces of
Hoover-Matic products.....Dyson. Also......Micro-professor. That is a modelling system to develop microprocessors on.
The idea to require extraneous links to legal third party suppliers of say "OS"'s such as Msoft.......is pretty minimal.
Probably , though as i mentioned........corp's file against Msoft and often win.
perhaps there are different bios again within Chrome-machines.....?
(Chrome-books)
Global handsets have a bios which i believe is there from root. The handheld systems offer you to access it to repair boot-loops and such. The thing is that Google
"acquired" Android and didn't make a single part of it themselves. Likely IPR theft on a grand scale indeed.
Whether or not users of global hardware realize, they DO NOT own Microsoft windows and have purchased just a licence for it. That is implicit to lots of
intrinsic software that drives global hardware.
No consumers will have ownership at any point at all.
It's "intellectual property rights" legislation>
many new manufacturers revert to
life-time patents which is the only possible mechanism for commercial enterprise in this sector.
It is sometimes easier with other licensing restrictions which are allowed on the operating and licensing of very large corporate amounts of hardware...
i understand that people want to get away from monopolisation. That's silly
because we live in a technology oasis and ownership and these licenses are
always totally inexpensive any rate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS Thx
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