From 5627c799b5188668220053104f17084a36722286 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:25:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] website: faq: Puri.sm: remove hardware recommendation. This has several reasons: - The GNU Boot project didn't review all the hardware made by Pusi.sm, especially because Puri.sm also sell hardware that is out of scope for the GNU Boot project like USB tokens or SIM cards. - Reducing the scope to just x86 computers made by Puri.sm instead doesn't work either because there is no context to the recommendation. In harm reduction[1], the Freedom Ladder campaign by the FSF[2], and the FSF giving guide[3], context is taken into account so that people can make informed choices based on their constraints and choices. In practice these approaches make statement like "this computer respects more your freedom than this other one", or "this is dangerous because of that and you can reduce harm this way, even if it's far from perfect" and give context to statements to enable people to really understand what it means. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm_reduction [2]https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns-summaries#ladder [3]https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/ At the end of the day it's also less work and maintenance to just remove that hardware recommendation statement than to review specific computers that GNU Boot doesn't even support. Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault --- website/pages/faq.md | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/pages/faq.md b/website/pages/faq.md index b232a41..314d168 100644 --- a/website/pages/faq.md +++ b/website/pages/faq.md @@ -276,8 +276,6 @@ Intel remote access to a computer where it is present. Intel themselves even admitted it, publicly. -The GNU Boot project recommends avoiding all hardware sold by Purism. - Why is the latest Intel hardware unsupported in GNU Boot? {#intel} -----------------------------------------------------------