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Coreboot (which System76 and Framework use): Exists Love the GNU mentality though, but you don't need FUD to promote your ideas. Lots of problems would just di
by pmarreck 3y ago
Coreboot (which System76 and Framework use): Exists
Love the GNU mentality though, but you don't need FUD to promote your ideas. Lots of problems would just disappear if most things went open-source, and the value proposition might shift but would still be there. The most valuable part of code is the people that create, understand and maintain it; not the code itself. The code itself is ephemeral. (I hate to admit this. Us coders love our brain-babies.)
Note: I own a System76 Thelio Major and have a Framework laptop on order, so I am not just a non-participating bystander in my beliefs here
- trinsic2 3y agoI agree. GNU rhetoric does not help their case. Much of it sounds very confrontational and whinny. I am a supporter of free software and open hardware, but I would never try to forcibly try to convince people with half-truths. BTW I don't think coreboot is really helpful in that it appears to me is more about controlling hardware access.
- ta1243 3y agoThat page was written way before most people had ever heard of linux, a decade before things like secureboot became a thing, and way before the most common personal computing device in the world was a choice of two locked down devices.