On 09/25/2017 02:37 PM, Yethal wrote:
If you’re not familiar with this laptop, some of the points in its favour are:
1. Free software ethos: comes with core boot and the hardware is user
replaceable to an extent very unusual for a laptop
2. Security-minded: ME disabled, open-source bios and has hardware disable switches for
mic&camera and wifi&bluetooth
Not true, purism isn't any different than an off the shelf laptop when
it comes to freedom - their BIOS isn't open source and ME isn't actually
disabled simply de-activated as anyone can do with me-cleaner (which
they didn't create mind you).
It is simply an overpriced quanta re-brand.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3anjgm/on_the_librem_laptop_purism_doesnt_believe_in/
Their version of coreboot is simply a wrapper layer, all the hardware
init is performed by intel's binary blobs and while some say "oh they
are doing their best" that isn't true as there are a variety of other
companies that somehow make actual libre hardware such as raptor, and a
variety of companies that provide libre firmware hardware (vikings,
minifree etc) reselling the KGPE-D16/KCMA-D8 boards and the variety of
intel thinkpad laptops created before mandatory ME.
Purism could have easily created an actually libre firmware device by
using AMD's 2013 pre-PSP FT3 hardware (ex: lenovo G505S) which would
have equivalent performance to intel's ivy bridge, but they didn't.
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