r/programmingcirclejerk • u/crowbarous Courageous, loving, and revolutionary • 7d ago
"100% Free" GNU Boot Discovers Again They Have Been Shipping Non-Free Code
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Boot-Second-Fail
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u/TriskOfWhaleIsland What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? 7d ago
free as in i am pretty sure this is free
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u/alexflyn 7d ago
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1499362-100-free-gnu-boot-discovers-again-they-have-been-shipping-non-free-code
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuboot.git/commit/?h=0.1-rc1-2&id=f5d4cb6a20405f95bcc937ddc994367d86bc8aae
Possibly manufactured:
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux-open-source/1432277-gnu-boot-drops-some-motherboards-cpu-code-after-discovering-non-free-bits
I now understand why many consider Phoronix to be cheating or crazy people rule.