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remove redundant paragraph, and fix one more typo

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Leah Rowe 2022-01-03 01:08:00 +00:00
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@ -234,11 +234,6 @@ high CPU usage and I/O (RAM usage), without crashing (otherwise, it's very
likely to encounter a kernel panic caused by a
[Machine Check Exception](faq.html#machine-check-exceptions-on-some-montevina-penryn-cpu-laptops)).
Leah Rowe policy is to include microcode updates, *by default*, because they
do not affect software freedom in practise, since the only other "choice" is
*broken, buggy* microcode. This is not a choice, it is a prison, and a less
comfortable prison is clearly inferior.
Not including these updates will result in an unstable/undefined state. Intel
themselves define which bugs affect which CPUs, and they define workarounds, or
provide fixes in microcode. Based on this, software such as the Linux kernel
@ -297,7 +292,7 @@ policy of Libreboot, my own project. I am horrified by the technically
incorrect monstrosity that I created, so I did osboot to make me feel better.
It is far superior to Libreboot, in every way, because it still can (*and does*)
support the same hardware, but it lacks dogma. The osboot project takes a more
pragmatic approach to freedom, that is completely in line with my action views.
pragmatic approach to freedom, that is completely in line with my actual views.
*Libreboot is inferior*.
However, I will say: