Someone cited this in discussion of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11556053" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11556053</a><p>I thought it was interesting that in 1997 RMS said:<p>&gt; free kernels, even entire free operating systems...had existed around the turn of the century...you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer&#x27;s root password<p>So he basically predicted UEFI ~15 years before it was a thing.