Coreboot Issues Rebuttal To Recent Laptop Vendor Controversy

[mlau]

I looked over their website, the about page was a big humorous.
A bit pretentious for my tastes, not a company I would be inclined to do business with in the first place.
Sad it ended up this way.

Ha, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I thought initially it was a scambaiter site similar to the "Anus Laptop" site of 2005...

[curfew]

ngl i am a malibal fan after reading their blog post. the way they ban place X or vendor Y "for life" is unhinged but hilarious and kind of based.

They haven't banned anything. It is a suggestion to stay away or you might get banned. This incompetent idiot doesn't even know how to block devices with certain IP addresses or user agent strings, lol, and he's supposed to be manufacturing laptops.

ROFLMAO!

[mobadboy]

as expected, the unhinged bozo is an unhinged bozo

[tildearrow]

Phoronix has now been Malibanned too!

You win! I was thinking of making some ban joke, but I couldn't come up with one.

[Quackdoc]

https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot

I am not sure if you were just making 80% joke by cutting the c or coreboot or knew about the project oreboot. Oreboot to rewrite coreboot in rust that only support Linux operating systems. Yes oreboot is like 80% to a generic EFI firmware other than the fact it does not boot any other OS other than Linux of course. It is quite a good example of how bad 80% done firmware is. 80% done equals some very extreme limitations.

both I was aware of oreboot

[oiaohm]

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

https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot

I am not sure if you were just making 80% joke by cutting the c or coreboot or knew about the project oreboot. Oreboot to rewrite coreboot in rust that only support Linux operating systems. Yes oreboot is like 80% to a generic EFI firmware other than the fact it does not boot any other OS other than Linux of course. It is quite a good example of how bad 80% done firmware is. 80% done equals some very extreme limitations.

[Quackdoc]

https://portal.malibal.com/kb/a1052/...hip-to-canada/ used to state, simply, "No." (as still seen on Google searches right now)

lol, guess I don't need to do much.

[jukebox]

If MALIBAL was unable to find a single vendor to fulfill their needs, it may be worth considering if the challenges lie elsewhere.

SOURCE: 9elements rebuttal @ https://9esec.io/blog/response-to-re...ing-9elements/

[pong]

ngl i am a malibal fan after reading their blog post. the way they ban place X or vendor Y "for life" is unhinged but hilarious and kind of based.

If more consumers did that (vote with feet / wallet / appropriately scathing feedback) we might have more companies that don't suck at UX / QC / ...

[QwertyChouskie]

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

"they"

(It's one person)