GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot

Post by Lammy » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 4:05 AM UTC

evasb wrote: post #33

torstenvl wrote: post #31

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I don't know about past actions. But my understanding is she didn't create "another GNU Boot," she made a GNU Boot release of Libreboot to allow them to rebase their fork off something that wasn't from 2021. EDIT: To be clear, I'm not saying the C&D was wrong. Trademarks must be actively defended and I'm not offended that they did so. I just remain unconvinced that Leah Rowe was trying to create another GNU Boot proj…

This is highly personal, and it is pretty sad that the GNU project name is being involved in this drama that doesn't have much to do with them. They (GNU Boot) don't want her help, and I understand why they don't like her. The fact she is making more drama from it is more proof that she is not trustworthy. EDIT: I was wrong

  [lammy@emi] curl -I https://libreboot.org/news/rms.html
  HTTP/2 301 
  date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 04:04:13 GMT
  location: https://libreboot.org/news/gnuboot.html

Post by causality0 » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 4:11 AM UTC

voz_ wrote: post #51

causality0 wrote: post #49

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The inability of the community to self police has driven a ton of people away, myself included.

Post by alexhsamuel » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 4:22 AM UTC

willcipriano wrote: post #8

Friends, not only is there room for two boots in the world, we need that many if we want to get anywhere.

Post by wolverine876 » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 4:31 AM UTC

neilv wrote: post #27

saghm wrote: post #9

Obviously we don't have the full context of prior communication, but the message screenshot is super passive aggressive ("just a little reminder you're not a maintainer" when obviously both parties are aware, "you're welcome to send us patches that we will review if we want to" very implying that the patches might just be ignored). It's possible the libreboot author also wasn't communicating professionally either, bu…

I have to remind myself not to read too much into such things, for three reasons that we all know, but which may bear repeating to ourselves: 1. Open source is global, and not everyone is a native speaker of English. 2. Among English speakers, not everyone has the same cultural conventions and nuances. Even within US cities, you can drive 15 minutes, and find very different conventions. And culture in Boston isn't th…

Post by mcpackieh » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 4:37 AM UTC

OO000oo wrote: post #15

dehrmann wrote: post #11

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I was thinking it's part of the reason it never offered a cohesive desktop OS.

Are you suggesting the corporate interests want that? I think in fact the corporate interests already get 99% of everything they want and they simply don't care for a cohesive desktop OS.