Malibal and Coreboot Have a Disagreement

(blogs.coreboot.org)

17 points | by ghostoftiber12 hours ago

5 comments

epcoa19 minutes ago
Who fucking cares?
The guy is an unhinged idiot: https://www.malibal.com/legal/terms/ Ignore them, pay them no mind, move on with life. I feel sorry that anybody with Coreboot wasted their precious life interacting with this waste of space.
ghostoftiber12 hours ago
Laptop reseller Malibal who boasts laptops with Linux support has picked a fight with the coreboot project and blacklisted several countries and US states from receiving their laptops.
The "why don't you ship to" links in their KB are also lulzy: https://portal.malibal.com/kb/c2/payment-shipping/
- knowitnone8 hours ago
  Oh no! What will we ever do? haha. So Malibal tried to use free software, couldn't do it themselves, tried to get someone else to do it for cheap, and complains while not even paying anybody. Sounds like a cheap company that will cut corners at ever turn(pun intended).
- throwaway3133739 hours ago
  > We no longer ship to Colorado due to the actions of System76's Principal Engineer (https://www.system76.com), Pop_OS! Maintainer (https://pop.system76.com), and Redox OS BDFL (https://www.redox-os.org) named Jeremy Soller (https://soller.dev).
  Source: https://portal.malibal.com/kb/a1064/why-dont-you-ship-to-col...
  Err, what? I really can't follow the logic here. What does some dude have to do with Colorado.
- exe3411 hours ago
  this is some Elon Musk level of maturity!
throwaway3133739 hours ago
Here is the other side of the story, in case anyone curious: https://www.malibal.com/features/dont-support-the-coreboot-p...
It's... pretty weird
- klooney5 hours ago
  Absolutely unhinged.
- exe347 hours ago
  > UPDATE 2: System76’s Principal Engineer decided to chime in and make a fool of himself, so we banned the entire state of Colorado for life.
  I'm tempted to chime in as a UK citizen and get us banned too for a giggle!
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