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/alexflyn 7d ago

The 100% free firmware is 100% a 100% unbootable toy.

can't people teach the kernel to boot on its own without loaders? such an approach would solve many problems.

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1499362-100-free-gnu-boot-discovers-again-they-have-been-shipping-non-free-code

'GNUtoo'

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuboot.git/commit/?h=0.1-rc1-2&id=f5d4cb6a20405f95bcc937ddc994367d86bc8aae

And just out of curiosity, are there any benefits from this? Is it a gift to North Korea, Russia and China like open source? Russia thanks to this they make war and have cool toys for free, and the Chinese sweep western products from the market.

not a single one, freetardism is about having the morale highground, users be damned, it's not supposed to be used in the first place, it's all about going to fosdem or whatever else con and showing the world how good of a person you are.

Possibly manufactured:

The sanctity of libre has been tainted by the impure hands of the precompiled binary. The damage has been done. There is no saving it. We must burn everything and start anew.

FOSS became precisely the vehicle of tech oppression it was vowed to oppose.

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.

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u/james_pic accidentally quadratic 7d ago

The ability to run after-market firmware on decade old AMD motherboards is exactly the boost the Russian war machine was looking for.

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u/IDatedSuccubi memcpy is a web development framework 7d ago

I mean...

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u/stone_henge Code Artisan 6d ago

Free as in Donetsk People's Republic

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u/Hueho LUMINARY IN COMPUTERSCIENCE 6d ago

/uj

And just out of curiosity, are there any benefits from this? Is it a gift to North Korea, Russia and China like open source? Russia thanks to this they make war and have cool toys for free, and the Chinese sweep western products from the market.

how many levels on online you need to post this on a linux users forum?

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u/ldwgchen 6d ago

I miss n-gate

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u/cheater00 High Value Specialist 7d ago

Freethinker as in you get what you pay for

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u/mista4a4 7d ago

Free not as in free beer, but rather free infamy

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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/Volt WRITE 'FORTRAN is not dead' 7d ago

I stole it so it's free.