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Just Google "libreboot drama" and make sure to clear your schedule for the evening.
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All of the events that first come to mind when I think of the movement are very recent, after 2016. Like a UK teacher refusing to use a student's preferred pronouns in 2022, JK Rowling catching heat for her views in September 2019 and Canada judging a lawsuit by a trans person) when that person's identity is relevant) in 2019 too.
There wasn't any mainstream news coverage about them (whether positive or negative) in 2016, and I think the increasing news coverage since then (whether positive or negative) is a sign that they've started to gain acceptance. Negative news about a movement would only be published if those part of the movement are relevant.
I just think we can try to be more understanding of the recent past. We didn't always have the same views we do now...
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Leah created Libreboot in 2014. Leah stepped away from Libreboot in 2016, after some drama between her and the FSF. Two Libreboot community members, Andrew and Sebastian, became the Libreboot maintainers. In 2021, after Andrew and Sebastian managed to go 5 years without doing a release, Leah forcefully took the project back over in order to get releases going again. Leah also started a "sister project" to Libreboot,…
She said Denis is an early contributor
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Maybe a TLDR at the top would be better. There's often some pretty crucial context that gets nuked when the entire post gets deleted.
Yeah I guess that could be better. I literally just read every comment by that user (not realizing it was the same person), thinking "oh dang this is rough" and then at the end seeing the "EDIT lol nm" and realizing I just totally got misled, AGAIN. Super uncool. If your text is proven false, I don't want to read it or even glance at it (or even have to scroll past it, or have my network/browser load it, for that mat…
GNU Boot seems to have sent it not for anything in Libreboot itself, but to adress a web page with self-proclaimed “unofficial” GNU Boot releases. They wanted it to stop proclaiming to be “unofficial GNU Boot” releases. Understandable, if a bit antagonistic. EDIT: Courtesy of user jbit¹, this is the aforementioned web page: https://web.archive.org/web/20230719185342/https://libreboot... > 1. https://news.ycombinator.…
How can they object to "unofficial" releases of Free (tm) software when anyone can pull the code and build it.
Libreboot is such an unfortunate name, as you could also read the name as a library dedicated to rebooting a computer.
Hell, even the OpenOffice fork was called LibreOffice.
Functional code is better than non-functional code. What good is libreboot if you can't use it? You're more than welcome to use the now-maintained notgnuboot.vimuser.org or libreboot censored if you hate binary blobs, and are also more than welcome to try to find hardware that doesn't have closed source blobs built in. I love free software, and will never stop, but "Libre" is only great in a vacuum.
It's not surprising that the inclusion of (smaller) binary blobs in those projects is an issue which elicits strong feelings both ways since it goes to the core of the projects' purposes.
Libreboot is such an unfortunate name, as you could also read the name as a library dedicated to rebooting a computer.
It made perfect sense at the time it started. Hell, even the OpenOffice fork was called LibreOffice.
This guy made a video about this. https://youtu.be/vMolA5H39IE
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KDE is by far the better desktop, Gnome will never be great as long as they abhor choice. The "you're using it wrong" is too strong there.
and yet people love apple
There's a whole industry of little apps that let you fix things about MacOS that doesn't really exist on Windows. Rectangle, Karabiner Elements, SteerMouse, SteerMouse, etc.
Gnome copies the worst things about MacOS.