It's all very well to tell people to sit tight, stop whining, and content themselves with non-free boot software until the holy grail of a free ARM laptop arrives, but in the meantime, I will take the option that allows me to be as free as possible. Currently (and I'm sorry to say this) that option is the computers sold by Minifree, not ThinkPenguin. When the mystical ARM computer you keep promising arrives, I'll be happy to get one, but until then Librebooted x86s are the *free-est* option. That's why the FSF endorses them, and not ThinkPenguins.
I still fail to understand how Libreboot is counterproductive to the long-term development of a fully free computer. Your argument seems to rest along the lines that since they take away your business, they're taking away money from the long-term development of the ARM platform. If so, why don't you start selling Librebooted computers as well? If x86 is a dead end, but you sell x86s anyway because that's the best we have, why not actually *make the best* out of what we have and Libreboot them? Then no one would be detracting from anyone else's projects and ThinkPenguin would look a lot less hypocritical. This bitch fight you and Francis have just been having paints your company in a very bad light. Both ThinkPenguin and Minifree sell x86-based computers, awaiting the holy grail. It is hypocrisy of the highest order to sell computers based on x86, and then criticise another company for the doing the same thing! The difference between your companies is as follows: ThinkPenguin = x86 without Libreboot. Minifree = x86 with Libreboot. To me, and to all others who actually care about freedom in the present, Minifree is a far better option, despite your curious line of reasoning that "things will be better in the future so ignore your freedom in the present".
