Free Boot Firmware as Digital‑Sovereignty Tool

The FSF sponsoring GNU Boot shows a new, organized effort to make boot firmware (BIOS/UEFI) fully libre and community governed. Free boot images and distributions based on coreboot/GRUB reduce single‑vendor control over device startup, making machines more auditable and less susceptible to opaque remote control or vendor‑imposed restrictions. — If projects like GNU Boot scale, they shift power away from proprietary platform gatekeepers toward users and civil‑society actors, changing debates about tech sovereignty, surveillance, and regulatory leverage over vendors.