That's great to hear!
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I continue to contribute in the most minor way to both, and it's very true that Hughes LARGELY runs this repo. This is becoming a problem, especially since the majority of companies do not contribute, though they use the upstream just like everyone else.
If Amazon, Google, Dell, Hetzner, Equinox, DR, DO...etc all paid their fair share, they'd be able to pay honest contributors just simply for making what is already available MORE readily available. That's what this project is about.
On the hardware manufacturer side: AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Realtek...etc are also not chipping in.
This is a CRUCIAL project for larger adoption for home users. Yes, most enterprise-sized companies manage their own semver releases for firmware, but they still use these tools. They should contribute, not only because it's the right thing to do, but a miniscule amount of money for them to do so to ensure the same people making this such a success can continue to do so.
You nor this article say wtf is LVFS
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Given the precedent with Framework: does somebody know if the maintainer of FWUpd is right-wing?
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Cool, but I don't care how big Framework makes their tent. They will not see a cent from me.
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Who cares? I left the big tent a while ago.
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