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Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix
Librecore is a new project aiming to be a new Coreboot downstream with a focus remaining on providing fully-free system firmware. Separately, Minifree/Libreboot has been accused (and admitted by Leah Rowe) to not paying a vendor for a completed contract.
Librecore was formed due to "[Libreboot lead developer Leah Rowe] alienating large portions of the community, plus the stagnant and hard to use libreboot firmware and build system." With Librecore, they are aiming to use industry-standard tools and build environments. Another different design decision is pursuing Petitboot as the payload for a more modern and useful interface over GRUB as a payload.
[An] email from [Timothy Pearson of Raptor Engineering, one of the developers involved with the formation of Librecore, says]
We strongly recommend that no person do any business with Minifree or its founder Leah Rowe, as they do not honor their legally binding contracts.
The author notes that Rowe sent him an email that attempts damage control while admitting that she gyped Pearson.
(Score: 4, Informative) by requerdanos on Tuesday January 24 2017, @09:08PM
Just a reminder, this is the same Leah Rowe that maintains the "Why your project should never join GNU [libreboot.org]" page as part of bickering with (well, mostly at) the Free Software Foundation that forms the most prominently featured part, by far, of Libreboot's web presence. Even if she has some good points (it's plausible but hard to tell), she has turned up the crazy to 11 [postimg.org] on their web site with angry pop-over banners decrying all things FSF.
That's unfortunate, as Libreboot is the organization possibly doing the most to call attention to the "Intel Management Engine"/"AMD Platform Security Processor" super-root hardware backdoor problem in all modern x86 CPUs. They call far less attention to this problem than to their bickering with GNU, rms, and the FSF. Small wonder the community might feel alienated.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday January 25 2017, @05:28AM
I don't see why that is so crazy. According to This page [libreboot.org], a major part of the dispute (Libreboot being included as a GNU project) was not resolved until: 5 January 2017.
That is less than 3 weeks ago.
It makes sense to, at least temporarily, promote a stand made on principle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @06:15AM
Seeing as joining the GNU Project generally entails assigning copyright to the FSF, the fact that they honored her unilateral declaration that the project had left strikes me as rather magnanimous.
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Wednesday January 25 2017, @08:41AM
It's sad that when people raise concerns in the free software community they get vilified like this. I knew it was inevitable when she spoke up, but it's doubly sad that Soylent is joining in. Needless to say I won't be donated to Soylet if it's going to go all GamerGate over this.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
(Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Wednesday January 25 2017, @09:53AM
That makes her toxic, and borderline loon, in my book.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @06:30PM
Yup. Rejected submission from September:
Recent Libreboot Headlines Were Due to 1 Person [soylentnews.org]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday January 27 2017, @10:11AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @10:00AM
Dude, lady's off her rocker.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @02:06PM
Are you not vilifying our community for raising concerns?