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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 19:02:01 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

   I did this for fun:

   https://gnuboot.vimuser.org/news/gnuboot20230717.html

   https://gnuboot.vimuser.org/

   And now I'll actually get back to working on Libreboot. GNU Boot is inferior, for reasons explained here: https://libreboot.org/news/policy.html - but they wanted to fork Libreboot. Here is GNU Boot:

   https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuboot/

   They struggled for months to get devs. They use super old revisions of Libreboot. I decided to help them, for fun :)

   This version that I made is based on Libreboot from *today*, intended for re-use by the GNU project.

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 19:02:00 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     The GNU Boot people actually sent me a cease and desist email, citing trademark infringement. Amazing.

     Despite the original site clearly stating that it's unofficial. I literally made it to help them. You know, to help them use newer Libreboot because they use old Libreboot and even older coreboot.

     Anyway, I complied with their polite request and have renamed the project to non-GeNUine Boot. The release archive is re-compiling.

     https://notgnuboot.vimuser.org/news/nongenuineboot20230717.html

     Personally, I like the new name better.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 19:02:00 JST 翠星石

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     @libreleah >The GNU Boot people actually sent me a cease and desist email, citing trademark infringement.
     Why wouldn't they sent a C&D for such trademark infringement?
     
     >Despite the original site clearly stating that it's unofficial.
     Unfortunately, including a trademark and then separately writing that it's unofficial doesn't make such activities not trademark infringement.
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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 22:41:02 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • Gorgeous na Shock!

     @indigoparadox Yeah, that surprised me too. I never intended for people to get that impression. Hopefully nobody will get confused, now that I renamed it.

     I think the entire concept behind GNU Boot is fundamentally flawed, for reasons explained here:
     https://libreboot.org/news/policy.html

     However, I also saw that they needed help. Even if I disagree with something, sometimes it's fun to work on an interesting problem. Sort of like creating a monster. Help was given, and rejected. Oh well, it's their loss :)

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     Gorgeous na Shock! (indigoparadox@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 22:41:03 JST Gorgeous na Shock!

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     @libreleah lol apparently at least one person was confused: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Boot-20230717

     "Both GNU Boot and Libreboot continue to be managed by developer Leah Rowe."

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 04:56:42 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     i got a reply from Ariadne Conill @ariadne saying i should post the C&D. here it is.

     it was pgp signed too, but also encrypted; i didn't know how to show the text unencrypted with the pgp signature intact pertaining to it, so here is a screenshot instead:

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     Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette (archivist@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 04:58:27 JST Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette

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     • josemanuel

     @josemanuel

     Wowow calm down we don't claim that dimwit he's on his own

     @libreleah @ariadne

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     josemanuel@qoto.org's status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 04:58:28 JST josemanuel

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     @libreleah Oh, a French. That explains both the rudeness and the wrongness.

     @ariadne