Malibal and Coreboot Have a Disagreement

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18 points·ghostoftiber··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/

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).

> 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.

this is some Elon Musk level of maturity!

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

> 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!

Absolutely unhinged.

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