I thought you said you were done with this?
> Your taking short cuts and getting *nowhere* in the scheme of things
For this and the following text in that paragraph: again, you're missing the
point. Libreboot is providing a solution that people can use, right now at
this very moment, meeting the FSF's original calling for such a project (free
BIOS replacement) serving as inspiration for others to get involved and push
things even further forward. As also previously stated by me, I'm building up
the funds necessary to back manufacturing of own hardware.
As also stated, this will take much time, and I don't claim that it will be
easy.
> Reverse engineering is not illegal if its done right.
What you said about libreboot using leaked docs is factually false. It was
pure RE, the rest was based on public datasheets.
If you want to continue slandering the libreboot project, please feel free to
do so, but you only hurt your reputation each time you do.
> We didn't fail to do it because we were already working on it. It's just a
more difficult task when your doing it legally, properly, and actually have
plans to manufacture the laptops long term.
Seriously?
Are you seriously saying that libreboot is illegal?
Are you really going down that path?
> We chose *not* to work on dead-end projects.
There you go again. Libreboot is not a dead-end project, at all. We're
working all the time on adding new hardware support.
I did say that x86 is a dead-end, yes, but that that doesn't mean libreboot
is a dead-end. We're currently focussing on ARM. RISC-V is also interesting,
but it'll likely be a few years before anything usable comes out of that.
There are a few more x86 targets that we're also interested in, in the short
term.
> Just because I don't care about it what-so-ever doesn't mean I wasn't
willing to fund it.
For the paragraph that this sentence is from: no. You had absolutely rotten
intentions, which I've already talked about in this thread, and will not
repeat again.
> Interesting. Considering we have had multiple devices up and running
without coreboot or libreboot that were completely free AND RYF certified.
It's insulting. It's insulting to the work that we do on libreboot. It's
insulting to the work done in coreboot. The fact that you are able to say
this, shows that you are *not* serious about free software. Coreboot is even
considered a *high priority project* by the Free Software Foundation, as is
libreboot.
You are opposing the very movement that you claim to be supporting.
> Your not going to convince me of this.
I don't need to convince you of anything. You are quite irrelevant to me, in
fact.
After taking part in this forum thread, I've come to the conclusion that
ThinkPenguin is as bad as Purism, especially after their comment that
coreboot is "not needed".
