Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community

Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by Chaebixi on Thursday April 06, 2017 @06:00PM (#14055064)

> That sounds like a double-edged sword, since by those rules an Evil Attacker Organization™ could now get rid of key people by stirring up enough drama around them [emphasis mine].

I don't think it is. It's one thing to have drama around you, but it's quite another to be the source or instigator of it. Leah Rowe is clearly the latter.

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Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by posguy on Thursday April 06, 2017 @08:06PM (#14055878)

Another aspect of this is who wants to head up a project like Libreboot? Its a large time sink for minimal returns, as x86-64 is very locked down and likely unusable for future Libreboot targets, with ARM chips bypassing Coreboot (which Libreboot is a build environment for) entirely, instead using uboot.

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Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by swsieber on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:00PM (#14055514)

Was, not is. I believe that's an important distinction.

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Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by DashRattlesnake on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:32PM (#14056326)

> Was, not is. I believe that's an important distinction.

It is, but it's yet to be seen if this kind of dramatic behavior is behind the project's leader. It was all very dramatic and still very fresh. An apology is only the first step towards making it past-tense.

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Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by CodeWriter23 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:21PM (#14056577)

There is also the reality that recovery from addiction doesn't always take on the first try.

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