Comment by mindslight
4 days ago
Personally I treat whinging about other people's ideals as a red flag.
It's libreboot. The entire point of its creation was to take coreboot and rip out the non-libre blobs. Its author is trans (IIRC), which also carries its own very pointed perspective on the world.
Some of it goes too far in my own opinion - I have no problem trusting AMD's final microcode for the Opteron 63xx any differently than the baked-in mask for the 62xx. But regardless, I respect someone who is pushing the whole envelope as they see it. At the very least their effort creates a lot of things I do care about!
Rereading this I realize I might be in the running for the RMS award for technically correct social obtuseness so let me just say that my intent was not to denigrate trans at all, just saying that being trans is itself intrinsically political (as in you're going to be continually clashing with many people's default assumptions, even before the manufactured "culture war" throws gas on the fire). And then furthermore being openly trans is going to impart those politics to the project. Which is most certainly her right, as it is her project! In fact I would say that trying to push a standard of you can contribute your code but stfu about your other ideals is basically cruel.