Hello everyone. I'm writing to libreplanet-discuss today, to discuss a topic that I believe has not been discussed adequately, in recent years. I'll get straight to it:
Some of you may know me as the founder and lead developer of Libreboot, a project which provides free boot firmware, replacing the proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware on specific hardware. It is used heavily by the FSF; they even run it on the servers which host fsf.org and gnu.org! Libreboot is based on coreboot. The coreboot project distributes binary blobs, which are required on most machines that it supports. Libreboot removes those blobs, resulting in only a handful of machines being supported, and efforts are made to support more machines in such a state. Until recently, Libreboot did not actually have a formal policy, defining specific standards or objectives. It simply defaulted to the FSF's own message. I have now written a formal policy for the Libreboot project: https://libreboot.org/news/policy.html I have also written one for my parallel fork that I maintain, based on Libreboot: https://osboot.org/news/policy.html Both articles talk about binary blobs from coreboot; the libreboot one talks about blob deletion, and osboot talks about blob *reduction*. The purpose of both projects, is to provide as much software freedom as possible to users, within those policies. The ultimate goal: free software everyone, available to everyone, without the injustice that is proprietary software. The projects differ in their approach, but have that some underlying goal. I call for discussion of the topics presented in these articles. The articles also discuss flaws with the FSF's "Respects Your Freedom" program, and discusses ways to improve upon it, so as to encourage and to facilitate more freedoms for computer users in the future. Discussion welcome. Please, tell me your thoughts! -- Think for yourself. Live free!
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