Malibal and Coreboot Have a Disagreement

Malibal and Coreboot Have a Disagreement(blogs.coreboot.org)

18 points by ghostoftiber 1 year ago | 7 comments

Laptop reseller Malibal who boasts laptops with Linux support has picked a fight with the coreboot project and blacklisted several countries and US states from receiving their laptops.

The "why don't you ship to" links in their KB are also lulzy: https://portal.malibal.com/kb/c2/payment-shipping/

knowitnone 1 year ago | |

Oh no! What will we ever do? haha. So Malibal tried to use free software, couldn't do it themselves, tried to get someone else to do it for cheap, and complains while not even paying anybody. Sounds like a cheap company that will cut corners at ever turn(pun intended).

throwaway313373 1 year ago | |

> We no longer ship to Colorado due to the actions of System76's Principal Engineer (https://www.system76.com), Pop_OS! Maintainer (https://pop.system76.com), and Redox OS BDFL (https://www.redox-os.org) named Jeremy Soller (https://soller.dev).

Source: https://portal.malibal.com/kb/a1064/why-dont-you-ship-to-col...

Err, what? I really can't follow the logic here. What does some dude have to do with Colorado.

exe34 1 year ago | |

this is some Elon Musk level of maturity!

throwaway313373 1 year ago |

Here is the other side of the story, in case anyone curious: https://www.malibal.com/features/dont-support-the-coreboot-p...

It's... pretty weird

exe34 1 year ago | |

> UPDATE 2: System76’s Principal Engineer decided to chime in and make a fool of himself, so we banned the entire state of Colorado for life.

I'm tempted to chime in as a UK citizen and get us banned too for a giggle!

klooney 1 year ago | |

Absolutely unhinged.