As the former lead coreboot developer for Purism, I would TLDR as such:
The 2015 blog post you linked was the viewpoint of one individual, and referred to Purism's initial crowdsource-funded laptop, which shipped with a Nvidia GPU and proprietary firmware. Since then, every Purism device shipped has coreboot firmware available (though the first two did not have it at release). Purism has also heavily invested in their downstream version of HEADS, called PureBoot, which leverages a hardware key to enable tamper detection of the device firmware and /boot partition, as well as open-source EC firmware for their current model laptop.
-Matt / MrChromebox
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 1:43 PM Alexandre Janvrin via coreboot < coreboot@coreboot.org> wrote:
Greetings,
I have been shopping around for a laptop during the past few weeks, aiming for a mix of performance and privacy. During my search, I came across a blog post by mrnuke:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150223201313/https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2... (the post was referenced in a Qube OS discussion related to Anti Evil Maid: https://groups.google.com/g/qubes-users/c/sEmZfOZqYXM/m/j5rHeex1BAAJ )
I've noticed that this post has disappeared from Coreboot's blog, and that Coreboot now advertises Purism quite differently. From https://www.coreboot.org/users.html: "Purism https://puri.sm/ manufactures security focused laptops designed chip by chip to work with free/libre and open source software. Purism laptops are the only independently-made, brand new, high-performance laptops on the market specifically meant to pair recent technologies with coreboot https://puri.sm/coreboot/ and a neutralized Intel Management Engine."
I also came across Purism's public answer: https://puri.sm/posts/about-purism-and-librems-and-cake/
I guess the change in Coreboot's stance can be explained in a few manners:
- Purism genuinely improved since 2015 and is now delivering on their
promises,
- mrnuke's opinion never reflected Coreboot's opinions,
- Purism extended a "helping" hand to Coreboot, in order to align both
parties' economical objectives,
From an external viewpoint, I'd say that Purism has improved on their delivery, and their narrative seems to be grounded in reality rather than smoke and mirrors. (Even though they currently admit to still having some binary blobs here and there)
Can you please provide more context, and indulge in the curiosity of a random user ?
(Disclaimer: I do not intend to buy a Purism laptop, not because I think they are bad, but because I'll have a more "Do It Yourself" approach)
Best regards, Alexandre (a security/privacy enthusiast) _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-leave@coreboot.org