Well if they could get it to fit on a mini-dvd or a CD then nothing would be lost but I guess pre-UEFI systems are slowly going to be abandoned. (Guess coreboot community needs more funding)

We agree that we can not expect companies to support products beyond the timeframe which they expect to sell and support their own products. Code under FSF approved licenses means that anyone can say, “I need this supported” and choose to pay anyone that they want to get support. Or at the barest minimum, ensure existing functionality is not removed from them, just because company A demands that you their customer should buy something newer and that it would be in their financial best interest to brick their customers’ shit.

If the problem was getting it to work in the first place, then you would be right.

But once code is there and working, maintenance is an easier problem especially since git is involved.

Binary blobs on the other hand are just endless pain and only get worse with time.

In the words of Bryan Cantrill, we are at war with proprietary firmware and unfortunately at this moment in the war we are losing.

Well, no.

There are only a handful of hardware manufacturers for each component on a motherboard that might require firmware and once a motherboard is supported by coreboot, it can be maintained at a component level across all vendors who use that component (thus being cheaper than rolling their own proprietary firmware and cheaper to maintain over the lifetime of support) and we only need 1 single person in the whole world to keep it maintained.

Sounds like a good reason to demand coreboot or libreboot support for all computers you buy

Or if a handful of paranoid people read the code for a distribution and publicly discuss everything that they find (it only would take 12 crazies in the whole world)

Only for distributions which don’t do reproducible builds and require full and complete corresponding source code under an FSF approved license.

If you choose to download binary blobs, good fucking luck.

Come to the fediverse we have porn?

So they are going to just exclusively start hiring pedophiles huh…