Malibal and Coreboot Have a Disagreement

(blogs.coreboot.org)

17 points | by ghostoftiber14 小时前

5 comments

ghostoftiber14 小时前
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/
- knowitnone10 小时前
  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).
- throwaway31337311 小时前
  > 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.
- exe3413 小时前
  this is some Elon Musk level of maturity!
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throwaway31337311 小时前
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
- klooney7 小时前
  Absolutely unhinged.
- exe349 小时前
  > 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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