Unfortunately a lack of space restricts me from getting a used zSeries. Maybe a good thing (considering the amount of hours needed to configure one)
I really like the philosophy of Theo de Raadt. The fantatics nice people at OpenBSD try do things the secure way no matter how painful. As the stakes get higher and the whole unnecessary IoT plague infests even the dumbest of devices with 5G SoCs such an approach is both needed and rare.
Firmware is becoming more problematic day by day. Most of the time it is one big chunck of arcane code consisting of makeshift solutions and bugfixes. To quote Todd Howard out of context "It just works"
But as to how it works? Open Firmware is much needed but platforms that have it are either expensive (open power) or slow (RISC-V)
Lots of people with a talent to surround themselves with smarter people claim the fame. There is an even worse approach often found in politics: Surround yourself with people incapable of replacing you. This very much ensures errosion of competence every time someone retires.
At a practical level I just want the source to be available. I personally prefer the BSD license.
The whole GNU affair reminds me a bit of the various theological schisms in the byzantine empire. As to GNU and Linux: The debat has been going on for quite some time and seems to be made for the ages. But history cares little for speaking the truth about it. We will see which narrative prevails in the long run.
