El 30 de abril de 2017 17:11:09 GMT+01:00, "Steven R. Baker" steven@stevenrbaker.com escribió:
I'd like to start by warning against purchasing any product from Purism. They have consistently misled and profited off the backs of the free software movement, without giving much back at all. Their marketing material made many high claims - that they would be able to run Coreboot, they were working towards getting Libreboot on the device. This was false. They made claims that they were working towards convincing Intel to free its infamous management engine (something even Google were unable to do for its Chromebooks). Finally, when Coreboot was actually ported (by a Google employee on their lunch breaks, apparently), it ran with blobs that performed all the initialization code. I think it is not unreasonable to describe what they did as a scam. At any rate it is an overpriced generic
laptop.
Thanks for this. I was taking them at their word without looking into it. I appreciate the correction.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned https://minifree.org/
That is where my next laptop is comming from.
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