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-Open Letter to the Free Software Community
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-
-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