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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: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Wednesday January 25 2017, @02:00AM
What's more, the USA is not the whole world and even when we can basically agree on something that doesn't mean the rest of the world, or even just the rest of the English-as-a-first-language-world, agrees with us. An example; "oriental" seems to be commonly regarded as offensive in the USA today, though it was not a few decades ago. The PC substitute is 'asian' which is actually not a satisfactory substitute in any way, as asian is a superset of oriental. In the UK, however, I understand 'asian' is generally understood to include only south asians, not the east asians we used to call 'oriental.' None of this makes much sense and it's a mistake to expect it to.
Most of these etymologies are questionable, btw, but few moreso than your presumption that 'gyped' actually relates to gypsy/roma peoples. It's quite possible it does derive from "Egyption" which is what the Roma claimed to be at times and where the word 'gypsy' comes from, but it might actually originate from a Greek word for vulture instead. But don't let the facts get in the way of being offended, surely not!
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