Coreboot Issues Rebuttal To Recent Laptop Vendor Controversy

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Coreboot Issues Rebuttal To Recent Laptop Vendor Controversy

Following the rather bizarre blog post two weeks ago of laptop vendor MALIBAL suggesting not supporting Coreboot due to their frustrating experiences dealing with Coreboot consulting firms, the Coreboot project itself has now issued a response...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-Rebuttal-MALIBAL

[Errinwright]

Phoronix has now been Malibanned too!

[Quackdoc]

Someone help me get Canada banned too

[Danny3]

Good to hear from both sides!
Hopefully the vendor fixes what's to fix on their side and tries again.
I wish that CoreBoot / LibreBoot support is more common!

[Sethox]

Someone help me get Canada banned too

Unironically, getting banned is like a mark of promise to not get troubled with such a company.

Still this story as entertaining it is seeing the finding out portion of things, it also serves as a lesson to what not to do.

[loganj]

just like kids

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

It was obvious from a few sentences into MALIBAL's screed that they were absolute bozos who had no business running any company.

[skeevy420]

80% is a stupid number to use. If a car is 80% complete that means it could possibly be missing a crucial part.

❌ Engine
✅ Suspension
✅ Bodywork
✅ Transmission
✅ Infotainment
❌ Doors
✅ Windows
✅ Windshield
✅ Trunk
✅ Radiator

I don't see what Coreboot's problem was. All they had to do was engineer the doors and an engine.

[davidbepo]

as expected, malibal is the highest tier of retardation ive ever seen in a company, them being full of shit was the logical outcome

[Quackdoc]

80% is a stupid number to use. If a car is 80% complete that means it could possibly be missing a crucial part.

❌ Engine
✅ Suspension
✅ Bodywork
✅ Transmission
✅ Infotainment
❌ Doors
✅ Windows
✅ Windshield
✅ Trunk
✅ Radiator

I don't see what Coreboot's problem was. All they had to do was engineer the doors and an engine.

their real issue is that they went coreboot and not oreboot, those silly goobers.