> is breaking new grounds and pushing the free software movement forward,
Your not 'breaking new ground'. Coreboot wasn't always full of non-free
pieces and we have other bootloaders that are free. And with ARM coming out
we don't even need libreboot. You've at best solved a temporary problem. If
you had started *years* earlier then maybe I'd say you contributed something
of significance. That isn't how things happened though. You showed up just as
X86 was dying and took credit for what is largely the work of others. There
was some work involved to free that code no doubt- and that is deserving of
credit- but it's not more than 2 years worth. I've been working at this for
several years comparatively and so has Bob, Rubén Rodríguez, and a lot of
other people. Your one small part of the puzzle just like the rest of us.
It's great to be able to glamorise what one is doing- but sometimes its best
to do it *privately* amongst people who are your friends and not do it when
your attacking other people's reputations.
> What does your threat against it say about you, as an individual?
I didn't threaten anybody. I've taken no action against any person or entity.
I haven't even said anything bad about libreboot! The logs only reveal that
your lying about this and that is purely defensive. Your actions are what
compromised the project- not the revelation of those actions. Even if I do
not reveal the logs (I don't really care to do that!) libreboot is *still* at
risk and so are all the users who utilize it and any other projects which
incorporated your code.
Definition of a 'threat': express one's intention to harm or kill (someone)
I have no intent to harm you or libreboot. If I did I'd have already done
something. I'm being VERY mellow about taking any action that even has a
slight chance of creating a problem despite the hostility.
> No, I didn't. What you're doing here is to try discredit the libreboot
project by,
I'm not trying to discredit libreboot. To do that I'd have had to say
libreboot contains non-free pieces. To discredit you on the other hand I'd
have to show that you were lying. Which is the only thing I was trying to do.
But every time I bring something up you go out and admit it. So I don't even
need to do so.
> You are ignorant, precisely because of your comments about coreboot in this
regard.
Your completely warping everything I'm saying. I'm applying it to the future
of free laptop systems. It has no relevance here in terms of freeing ARM and
other architecture based systems.
In other contexts coreboot/libreboot probably does have value and a future.
For instance in an ARM server environment there is value in
coreboot/libreboot likely. For example I believe coreboot had some remote
control capabilities. Porting coreboot/libreboot to ARM within that context
has value. I don't think it has value within the context I've been speaking.
I might have just answered the question I keep asking you: Where is the value
in libreboot on ARM? It's not quite within the scope of a free software
laptop... it still has no value here as far as I can see... as we don't need
it... but it does have value elsewhere. Maybe. I'm not entirely familiar with
servers and how its used or how critical this is in those environments. From
a value perspective it still might make sense to skip it if there are other
projects which are more critical within the context of free software. For
instance if you don't need libreboot because you can get away with uboot
within a server environment and there are other components which are non-free
that are critical in said environments then you just very well may be doing
something destructive here by wasting resources on something we don't even
really need (again within the context of freedom, outside those contexts it
has value, it's just not as valuable if your focus is freedom).
