maybe you are very young :) but for experience companies allow employees to
contribute to open source oe free projects. So it is normal to see some
people working on coreboot in their free time and for other company in
working time.
We all make mistakes, and it's understandable to be suspicious of both Purism
and Google.
Never mind, I was trying to figure something out about their laptops and
hastily jumped to this conclusion. Sorry for sounding strange.
I was trying to figure out if those computers were OEM, I went too far.
This thread should be locked.
Ehm...
First Where is written than Mr. Reinauer and Mr. Minnich are working for
Purism?
Citing the link you posted: Todd Weaver met again with various coreboot
contributors (including Stefan Reinauer, Ron Minnich, David Hendricks, and a
few others).
I see coreboot contributors.
Second it
True, but Purism uses Coreboot, not Libreboot. On the whole, I think Purism
is a diversion for Google to advance in the hardware market. Now, Google has
started to create its own CPUs
https://www.wired.com/2016/05/googles-making-chips-now-time-intel-freak/
Intel is obviously profiting
Purism is pretty slimy, but they draw attention to the free software
movement. I don't see how that benefits Google.
Purism claims to have met with coreboot developers to port coreboot to their
laptops. Two of the major developers are Stefan Reinauer and Ron Minnich
(https://puri.sm/coreboot/timeline/). They do NOT mention any involvement
with Google at all on this page.
During the time they were
