Coreboot Support

Posted Sep 9, 2025 5:13 UTC (Tue) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Coreboot Support by 奇跡
Parent article: Testing the 2-in-1 Framework 12 Laptop

The only think that concerns me about that article is that people with that level of emotional maturity are actually developing products out there? I think every potential buyer of a Malibal product should read that link and decide whether that is where they want to spend their money.

Coreboot Support

Posted Sep 9, 2025 8:23 UTC (Tue) by danielthompson (subscriber, #97243) [Link]

Overall that article seems rather attached to the "we've done 80% of the work" rather than "we churned out 80% of the required lines of code... and they don't work".

A friend of mine used to summarize this kind of situation as: "So fixing that will be $100... oh I see, you've already tried to fix it yourself... in that case it will be $200". The quote is usually related to repairing something but I think it can scale up to software development too. It initially sounds petty but when going deeper I think there is a good bit of logic behind it. When doing fixed price work, this kind of pricing reflects that, if someone has already tried and failed, then what is left is probably difficult to fix and that risk must be priced accordingly.

PS I don't live in Florida but I'm going to say that I do because it might be funny to see what happens next.

Coreboot Support

Posted Sep 9, 2025 15:32 UTC (Tue) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

The MALIBAL people could learn a thing or two about emotional maturity from Matt Mullenweg.