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authorFrancis Rowe <fchmmr@minifree.lan>2015-11-25 13:39:32 (EST)
committer Francis Rowe <fchmmr@minifree.lan>2015-11-25 13:39:32 (EST)
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Libreboot is <em><strong><a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a></strong></em>; we do not use the term <em>&quot;open source&quot;</em>, because that term <em>ignores</em> the ethical ideals of the free software movement, focusing only on practicality and efficiency (short term convenience). Read <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">this article</a> for more information.
- However, libreboot also qualifies as an open source BIOS or UEFI firmware replacement, even if we don't like the open source argument (open source fails to teach users to value their freedom, which leads to proprietary software being accepted
- as <em>normal</em> and acceptable, even though proprietary software is <em>unethical</em> and <em>never the solution</em>).
+ However, libreboot also qualifies as an open source BIOS or UEFI firmware replacement, even if we don't like the open source argument (open source fails to teach users to value their freedom, leads to proprietary software being <em>accepted</em> by the general public, even though the development, promotion and distribution of proprietary
+ software is <em><a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html">unethical</a></em> and <em><a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html">never the solution</a></em>).
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Libreboot provides a fully free (deblobbed) coreboot tree, called <em>coreboot-libre</em>, with <a href="http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads">payloads</a> and utilities already included. It attempts to make coreboot