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Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 24 2017, @06:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the making-a-better-'puter-booter dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Wednesday January 25 2017, @04:00AM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Wednesday January 25 2017, @04:00AM (#458387) Journal
    They meant Free as in speech, not free as in beer. Free as in freedom and liberation, not free as in zero cost. It is definitely possible to make money by selling hardware that is free and open in this sense, but the tangled web of patents, copyrights, and trade secrets that is the sine qua non of the modern electronics industry makes this difficult.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @08:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @08:59AM (#458430)

    The reason 'free' and 'free' software exists is because the cost to make infinite copies is *very* low. The up front design cost is not. Making something is always high cost.

    However hardware has a different issue. To make infinite copies of something the cost is decently high. You do not see GNU style free hardware because of that. There are some simple designs out there. But for the most part hardware has a different copy issue than software does. It does not really encourage both kinds of free things.