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Wait until you hear about the proprietary microcode backdoors in Intel and AMD processors.
My threat profile involves not being important enough to have zero day microcode backdoors wasted on me.
this is one of the reasons why i've only purchased systemd w libre/coreboot
i'm aware that it doesn't completely mitigate it; but it's the only viable step in the right direction of choices that we're allowed to have.
i sometimes wish i could go back to buying american, but the likes of system76 have already made their allegiances clear.
Aw crap. What did they do? :(
Been somewhat out of the loop lately.
then you're in luck because it's old news. (circa 2016 iirc).
tldr: they decided to pull away active development on some foss projects because they conflicted with their profit motive.
it's easy to appreciate why a for-profit company would want to protect its revenue stream and it would seem that the waters would get really murky when their products rely on free and open sourced work; but i know from personal experience that much bigger fish like google and oracle have made it work REALLY well for themselves and in much better fashion (atleast publicly) than system76 has.
Ah I see what you're saying.
Thanks for taking the time for the clarification! I'm sure this would clear it up for some other folks as well.
I also know they're a fraction of the size of those giants who can probably field staff specifically for FOSS contribution, but that's still a bit disheartening. I hope things improve.
Every time they've seemed like a good option I find myself balking at the price though lol.