Indeed. I worked hard for a solid 3-4 months getting X200 stable in
Libreboot. Another 2 for the others (T400, R400, T500 - I still plan to port
R500 at some point, whenever I have the time). Tiberiu then starts also
selling Libreboot, thus competing with Minifree. He then tries to claim that
Minifree is being anti-competitive! And all simply because Minifree lowered
it's price...
He is literally attacking the very woman who got him into the position of
good fortune that he's currently in, where he's able to sell this hardware to
the public. The very woman who, out of good faith, personally wrote
https://libreboot.org/suppliers.html and made sure that all Libreboot
sellers, including Technoethical, were listed!
...and worked hard to convince the person vetoing its addition to the site
(Alyssa Rosenzweig) to allow the page to be added to the site.
Believe it or not, I do actually separate Minifree and Libreboot. I gave up
leadership of the Libreboot project, since there was a conflict of interest.
I am now merely a contributor, and others run the project. See:
https://libreboot.org/management.html
Hell, I even forked out 90k USD of my own money to have the D16 server board
ported to Libreboot. The FSF now uses this to run all of their servers,
including gnu.org. I delayed selling D16 for a year on Minifree, since it
wasn't fully stable in Libreboot... and then it flopped. And that's fine! As
long as I can still eat. I consider it a donation of 90k to the free software
community.
That 90k donation led to the creation of Vikings, a libreboot-powered hosting
company. There is literally a company on earth right now that will give you a
hosting solution running entirely on Libreboot hardware. 1Gbps internet
connection and everything, in a data center.
All I did was raise some technical criticisms about the T400S. He wrongly
interpreted that as an attempt by me to somehow "smear" him, which just shows
how paranoid he is. I'm perfectly happy that Technoethical exists. I mean
that, genuinely.
in kind and compete aswell.
Who knows. Maybe my effort to port X220 to Libreboot will actually succeed.
It already can boot entirely 100% libre, without the ME firmware present, but
with a hardware-enforced 30-minute reset when the ME firmware is not present;
it's the 30 minute timer that I'm trying to disable.
Then maybe if I'm successful, Minifree will get RYF on the X220. And then
Technoethical will start selling the X220... and complain that Minifree is
being anti-competitive for releasing everything including full source code,
under the GNU General Public License and listing Technoethical on the
Libreboot suppliers page.
And here I am, thinking.... gosh, I started this project in my bedroom when I
used to lived with my parents 4 years ago, and now a guy named Tiberiu is
complaining that I personally made it possible for his company to even exist
;)
LOL
