Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops

Re:Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops by pmarreck on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @12:39PM (#38534189)

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

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Re:Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops by ta1243 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @04:21PM (#38537067)

That 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.

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Re:Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops by trinsic2 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @03:58PM (#38536819)

I 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.

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