-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I would also like to point out that Timothy is a psychopath. The reason I told him I couldn't pay the final 15k on the KCMA-D8 is because I would have ended up *homeless* if I did. He told me he didn't care, and that I didn't deserve a home or to eat properly. He only cared about that 15k, despite the fact that I already paid the full 75 for the D16 contract, and despite all the positive endorsement and support that I gave TALOS on libreboot.org when that campaign was still running.
I had every intention of paying Timothy that 15k, if I became able to. But now that will not happen, as a result of what he has done and said in the last 24 hours. On 20/01/17 13:15, Leah Rowe wrote: > I'm just going to paste what I wrote on phoronix's comments > section. > > On 19/01/17 17:58, Timothy Pearson wrote: >> Sorry to revive an old thread, but as many of you are aware >> Minifree (Leah Rowe) contracted with us to port the KCMA-D8 and >> release it. We performed this work and the KCMA-D8 continues to >> operate, however Minifree has decided not to pay their contract >> on this work. We strongly recommend that no person do any >> business with Minifree or its founder Leah Rowe, as they do not >> honor their legally binding contracts. > > > > I'm perfectly happy for Raptor to publicly complain. This is only > fair, and they have the right. However, there are certain facts > that I would like to point out clearly for the community. > > Fact 1: I paid 100% of the KGPE-D16 contract with was 75k USD I > did not pay the KCMA-D8 contract which was 15k. Timothy's email > implies that I barely paid any of it. The D8 was a mere extension > on top of the D16 and was a few weeks work for Timothy. The article > also implies that I was unwilling to pay the remaining 15k. I was > actually *unable* to pay. Big difference. I fully paid for the > KGPE-D16 contract, and D16 is all that Minifree sells. Most people > don't use D8 and it wasn't viable to sell. I would also like to > point out that several organisations now use the KGPE-D16 with > libreboot. This includes the Free Software Foundation, to host > their websites. I personally sacrificed a lot to pull that off. I > find it deeply insulting that Timothy causes all this fuss about > the D8. The D8 port was also missold to me. I was lead to believe > that the hardware was readily available when it wasn't (unlike D16 > hardware), so the work for the D8 was more or less a waste of > resources. > > Fact 2: Libreboot is not a dead project. We are currently working > on a new release behind the scenes. We've merged an entirely new > build system that was written from scratch, to replace the old one > (the one that is "stagnant and hard to use" according to the > article). It's in the libreboot git repository as I speak, it was > merged a few days ago. Please mention this. The new build system is > extremely modern, flexible and easy to use. It adds many features > which the old build system lacked, such as (but certainly not > limited to): * easy ability to build and integrate linux kernel > payloads (*hint* petitboot *hint*) * integrates all > chromebook-related utils, for rockchip ARM chromebooks * integrates > chromeos flashrom, in addition to upstream flashrom * generally > better design, more modular, easier to maintain, easier to build * > plus a whole host of other advantages * about 10 new chromebooks > have been added to libreboot. So much for libreboot being dead, > eh? > > Please also mention that Libreboot is actually abandoning coreboot > and will be using Librecore as upstream. This will be covered in > my upcoming FOSDEM talk too. We have been quite public about this > already, on the Libreboot bug tracker. > > I would also like to point out, that so far Raptor Engineering has > not fixed the bug on KGPE-D16 where above 128GiB RAM becomes > unstable to the point of being unusable. Only up to 128GiB works. > This is less than what the contract suggests. They also released > source code that was broken; memory initialization was broken on > most memory modules. It took 6 months after the initial release of > the KGPE-D16 source code for them to make memory initialization > work, and even now raminit only works with a few modules. > > This is in addition to other bugs which they haven't fixed. I also > have IRC logs of private conversations between me and Timothy, > where he states that he's willing to let the free/libre hardware > movement crash and burn. This was before the dispute that happened > yesterday regarding payment. > > > > - -- Leah Rowe Libreboot developer Use free software. 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