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authorAlyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>2017-04-02 10:33:51 -0700
committerAlyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>2017-04-02 10:33:51 -0700
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fix seo
-rw-r--r--www/index.md59
-rwxr-xr-xwww/publish.sh3
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diff --git a/www/index.md b/www/index.md
index 20c79015..f8f8118a 100644
--- a/www/index.md
+++ b/www/index.md
@@ -23,7 +23,64 @@ Source BIOS or UEFI replacement, initialising the hardware and booting your
operating system. We are a member of the [Peers Community](https://peers.community/)
project, an organisation that supports Free Software.
-%%UNITYLETTER%%
+Open Letter to the Free Software Community
+---------------------------------------------
+
+To the free software community:
+
+Over the past six months, the Libreboot project has been in a state of discord.
+After an issue with a transgender employee at the FSF escalated, Libreboot
+publicly left GNU with little consultation from the community. Relations with
+so many people were strained. Friendships broken, lines of code never written:
+the chaos needs to come to an end.
+
+A series of organisational issues with Libreboot enabled this fallout to occur.
+We have since corrected them:
+
+Previously, the libreboot repository and the website could only be modified by
+the project leader, Leah Rowe. This setup created a single point of failure,
+with little leeway for dissenting contributors. Since then, I have joined the
+project as the sysadmin. Along with another contributor, Sebastian "Swift Geek"
+Grzywna, direct access to the code and servers is shared. Though the project
+cannot yet be completely decentralised, this change is a win for transparency.
+
+Previously, most of libreboot.org, including public statements such as those
+regarding GNU, were issued by Leah herself. The rest of the team and the
+community were not consulted. As Damien Zammit, a former contributor noted, the
+word "we" on old Libreboot notices meant "Leah". But alas, there is no room for
+the "royal we" in democracy.
+
+Finally, on a personal note, Leah was at the time struggling with gender
+dysphoria and substance abuse. Since then, she has been managing these issues.
+She agrees that her behaviour was rash and is determined to find a unifying
+solution.
+
+With all of this in mind, were the allegations against the Free Software
+Foundation true? Perhaps. Perhaps not. At this point, it doesn't matter.
+Indeed, it is unlikely that Libreboot will ever rejoin GNU, but feuding in an
+already fragmented community helps nobody. The world of free software is
+shrinking and under attack. Though the FSF may make mistakes from time to time,
+so do we. We do not need another divide.
+
+Similarly, we would like to work closely with librecore, another project
+working to deblob coreboot, whose team includes Damien Zammit. Once librecore
+matures, libreboot plans to switch to librecore in lieu of our current
+deblobbed fork. That is, there will be less duplication of effort; instead of
+competing with librecore, libreboot will complement it.
+
+As a technical update, we are currently working on a Libreboot port to
+the X220. Leah and Swift are investigating ways to disable the ME on
+Sandybridge hardware, which potentially means more modern Intel hardware may be
+supported. Additionally, Paul Kocialkowski has been working on supporting
+several new Chromebooks with ARM chips; these ports will also be available in
+an upcoming release.
+
+No more "royal we". No more notorious surprises. No more late night
+"typofixes".
+
+Transparency and collaboration are the way forward.
+
+~Alyssa Rosenzweig
Why use libreboot?
------------------
diff --git a/www/publish.sh b/www/publish.sh
index c027a460..9db2ff0d 100755
--- a/www/publish.sh
+++ b/www/publish.sh
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@ tail -n +5 $FILE.md >> temp.md
# cat license.md >> temp.md
#fi
-# add unity text in
-sed temp.md -i -e "/%%UNITYLETTER%%/r unity.md" -e "s/%%UNITYLETTER%%//"
-
# change out .md -> .html
sed temp.md -i -e 's/\.md\(#[a-z\-]*\)*)/.html\1)/g'
diff --git a/www/unity.md b/www/unity.md
deleted file mode 100644
index acfbcbb7..00000000
--- a/www/unity.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-Open Letter to the Free Software Community
----------------------------------------------
-
-To the free software community:
-
-Over the past six months, the Libreboot project has been in a state of discord.
-After an issue with a transgender employee at the FSF escalated, Libreboot
-publicly left GNU with little consultation from the community. Relations with
-so many people were strained. Friendships broken, lines of code never written:
-the chaos needs to come to an end.
-
-A series of organisational issues with Libreboot enabled this fallout to occur.
-We have since corrected them:
-
-Previously, the libreboot repository and the website could only be modified by
-the project leader, Leah Rowe. This setup created a single point of failure,
-with little leeway for dissenting contributors. Since then, I have joined the
-project as the sysadmin. Along with another contributor, Sebastian "Swift Geek"
-Grzywna, direct access to the code and servers is shared. Though the project
-cannot yet be completely decentralised, this change is a win for transparency.
-
-Previously, most of libreboot.org, including public statements such as those
-regarding GNU, were issued by Leah herself. The rest of the team and the
-community were not consulted. As Damien Zammit, a former contributor noted, the
-word "we" on old Libreboot notices meant "Leah". But alas, there is no room for
-the "royal we" in democracy.
-
-Finally, on a personal note, Leah was at the time struggling with gender
-dysphoria and substance abuse. Since then, she has been managing these issues.
-She agrees that her behaviour was rash and is determined to find a unifying
-solution.
-
-With all of this in mind, were the allegations against the Free Software
-Foundation true? Perhaps. Perhaps not. At this point, it doesn't matter.
-Indeed, it is unlikely that Libreboot will ever rejoin GNU, but feuding in an
-already fragmented community helps nobody. The world of free software is
-shrinking and under attack. Though the FSF may make mistakes from time to time,
-so do we. We do not need another divide.
-
-Similarly, we would like to work closely with librecore, another project
-working to deblob coreboot, whose team includes Damien Zammit. Once librecore
-matures, libreboot plans to switch to librecore in lieu of our current
-deblobbed fork. That is, there will be less duplication of effort; instead of
-competing with librecore, libreboot will complement it.
-
-As a technical update, we are currently working on a Libreboot port to
-the X220. Leah and Swift are investigating ways to disable the ME on
-Sandybridge hardware, which potentially means more modern Intel hardware may be
-supported. Additionally, Paul Kocialkowski has been working on supporting
-several new Chromebooks with ARM chips; these ports will also be available in
-an upcoming release.
-
-No more "royal we". No more notorious surprises. No more late night
-"typofixes".
-
-Transparency and collaboration are the way forward.
-
-~Alyssa Rosenzweig