On 03/17/2017 10:25 AM, ttu...@codeaurora.org wrote:
I'm sorry, I have to contribute at this point.
I got started with OSS in 2000 when Monta Vista Software (anybody
remember HardHat Linux?) hired me as a FAE.
I was teamed with a salesperson and we were trying to close business
selling an embedded Linux distribution.
Every 6 months or so we would have a sales meeting somewhere and
engineering would share with us the latest product development news, etc.
Ahead of one of these meetings I happened to be in headquarters (Santa
Clara, CA) and remember very clearly the happy face of this
engineering manager who had just "wasted" (my opinion) 3-5 days
generating a presentation slide-deck with OSS (I don't even know if
Open Office was available at that time) for the meeting, instead of
spending two hours doing same presentation with Powerpoint.
Just because I work with OSS doesn't automatically make me a zealot
for OSS as the only way to go. I choose the correct tool to get the
job done. I always hope for an OSS option, but to this day, Outlook
is the only product Micro$oft got right and I will choose it over any
of the OSS options I have tried as an email client.
I will leave with, think of the contribution to Coreboot source code
this energy could generate instead of spending it on fixing a problem
that doesn't need fixing?
Cheers,
T.mike
I am a sysadmin not a programmer, so this is my department.
I believe it needs fixing - It is a philosophical issue, I mean you have
to draw the line or you get the slippery slope for "just a little
non-free here for convenience just this once" has lead to most of the
community thinking that a system with 100% blobbed hw init is "free
firmware" (coreboot just being a wrapper shim loader for FSP in that
case) or that linux drivers with a binary blob are "open source drivers".
It is a matter of pride.
The linux communities quiet acceptance of things like ME/PSP (ex: why
don't sysadmins say no and buy POWER?) - is because of philosophy-slacking.
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