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Just Google "libreboot drama" and make sure to clear your schedule for the evening.
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was the spat of drama in 2016, and the view of "always in the middle of drama" is IMO confirmation bias since then (the financial trouble in 2020, then Leah's return to libreboot in 2021.) Today's drama is part of larger culture wars going on in the community: - The pro-RMS vs anti-RMS thing going on since RMS's removal from the FSF in 2019, much amplified by his reinstatement in 2021 (the latter of which lead…
> The pro-RMS vs anti-RMS thing going on since RMS's removal from the FSF in 2019 it's been going on MUCH longer than that. No matter what he's done for free software, he's also a super-creep based on some of his comments
I mean, yes, but it was brought to a crest then. It went from a bunch of folks in the community separately saying "yeah, he's kinda problematic..." to a bunch of folks standing together and saying "he's problematic!"
So of course it had been going on a while if more than 3000 people were "suddenly" willing to sign the open letter against him.
Re: GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot
#93Why is Libreboot always in the middle of drama? Is the maintainer just that kind of person?
People who are not satisfied with themselves are often also not satisfied with others
- personal experience as a dramanaut
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> No. The better question is, why didn't FSF contact Leah before trying to publish their own Libreboot releases at libreboot.at? Why did they try to impersonate Libreboot? That's not a better question at all. They list out their explicit reasoning for their attempted name takeover. I definitely don't agree with it, but I have no reason to believe that they're lying about their own beliefs. I absolutely do have reason…
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The whole thing is unprofessional on both sides. At least the libreboot fork site is clear in why it was created, but the core boot fork page is a mess.
Re: GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot
#95Haha, I can't deny that I love the catty drama that happens around the free software community. While I do wish people would get along better for the health of the project, I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests.
One can't help but wonder if the corporate interests are actually responsible for creating this drama as an attempt to derail or impede these projects.
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The fact that the person who sent the C&D email allegedly tried to "take over" the Libreboot name (according to TFA) is also not a good look. I found this: https://libreboot.at > Who are we? Denis ‘GNUtoo’ Carikli and Adrien ‘neox’ Bourmault. We created this and maintain it. > take a stand for fully free software is to change URLs across the web from to , and to let people know that no other version of Libreboot is r…
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Rather than append an edit at the end, just delete your post if it was completely debunked, otherwise people, like myself, read a paragraph of text only to learn it's all apparently "debunked".
Re: GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot
#98Why is Libreboot always in the middle of drama? Is the maintainer just that kind of person?
There was the spat of drama in 2016, and the view of "always in the middle of drama" is IMO confirmation bias since then (the financial trouble in 2020, then Leah's return to libreboot in 2021.) Today's drama is part of larger culture wars going on in the community: - The pro-RMS vs anti-RMS thing going on since RMS's removal from the FSF in 2019, much amplified by his reinstatement in 2021 (the latter of which lead…
I suspect the culture wars are largely a psyop by corporate interests who perceive the FSF and other user-freedom advocacy groups as obstructions to their attempts at controlling the population.
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#99In the end I agree, I wouldn't want to promote an association that is still pledging to "Defend Richard Stallman"
But the amount of Drama in this is over the top
Also, what was the last relevant project launched under the GNU Umbrella? Gneural network had the momentum of a damp toilet paper ball and I see that it was now discontinued https://www.gnu.org/software/gneuralnetwork/
Re: GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot
#100Isn't Leah the person that sold ThinkPads on behalf of Libreboot, didn't send it, then put the blame on her mental issues? Then she abandoned the project and let the contributors take over, after some time she booted them with fake accusations, banned them from their IRC channel and took over the project. The contributors complained that she didn't even have the decency of contacting them, but she was adamant of taki…
Again. delete this post. your edit at the end is useless.