blackiwid said:
I wanted to ask why reporting over this 1 women project that only became more known for 1. steeling a GNU Project from GNU and 2. from a lot of drama.
But it's worse not only do you report of it and risk to make people believe that this would be a libre aka free software Project but you even actively confuse people in believing that this would in any way be free software:
Libreboot 25.06 released this week as the newest version of this Coreboot downstream focused on shipping only with free and open-source components. But due to the strict open-source nature of Libreboot, it continues to primarily see support for long outdated platforms.
You use the word open-source not free but for many they see this as synonyms. And because you basically say because libreboot is different that it's opensource and coreboot is not opensource you put those in 2 strictly different camps while they are more or less identical, even libreboots own websites admits that:
Libreboot is a
coreboot distribution, in much the same way
Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution!
And coreboot is also opensource from their website the first sentence:
Fast, secure and flexible Open Source firmware
So if both are "opensource" Projects and one is only a distribution of the other, how can this be the reason why it supports less hardware.
You also say it's "strict" open-source. No it's not again it's website clearly states that it's not strict: Libreboot’s policy is to provide as much
software freedom as possible to each user.
Generally speaking, common sense is applied. For example, an exception to the minimalization might be if
vendor raminit and
libre raminit are available, but the
libre one is so broken so as to be unusable. In that situation, the vendor one should be used instead, because otherwise the user might switch back to an otherwise fully proprietary system, instead of using coreboot (via libreboot).
Some freedom is
better than none.
You could paint it that way if this were the only choices "somewhat-free" vs "total practical blob friendly" but because libreboot is not the real free solution and there is a real one, confusing people to think that this is the libre / gnu project is really bad, it's bad enough that the goal of the individual behind that was a vengeful project to create this confusion and because she believes that she was fired because of being trans, even her trans-status was known when she was hired, but helping this confusion is really not that great.
I can see some overwriting journalistic or economic interest because this causa can be political but if you have to report about each libreboot release at least don't make absurd claim that advances this confusion further as if they would be strict "opensource" they are not they are "pragmatic" now you can make the argument that GNU itself is pragmatic by supporting some microcode or roms, that they consider as hardware but that is the most "radical" standard out there, if you make compromises from that then you are not "stict" anymore less than X is never strict...
To reduce the confusion, if coreboot is not free enough for you you still don't get freedom from "libre"-boot, this is the Alternative for people loving freedom:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuboot
You don't need to agree to that, but then you just can use coreboot, and the only reason to use libreboot over coreboot would be some technical considerations because you like the build tools better or something alike.
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