GNU Boob Wars

Leah Rowe

15 July 2025

Article published by: Leah Rowe

Date of publication: 15 July 2025

That whole period was basically a massive amount more work than usual. A visual summary of the period in while GNU tried and failed to hostile-fork the Libreboot project, which only lead to the Libreboot project becoming even more well-known and later Canoeboot stole the whole show

I drew this on a whim, to both summarise and satirise the Cold Boot War.

The period of 2023 to 2025 was a massive period of hostility between GNU/FSF and the Libreboot project. It ended the way it began: FSF now uses Canoeboot heavily, and Libreboot 20220710 is also available from the GNU project.

All they did was cause me to do even more development work than usual, and a lot of good work was done.

Libreboot is my baby. In the process, Libreboot got a sibling, namely Canoeboot.

On this day, two years later, GNU still doesn’t yet have a stable release of their fork; Canoeboot and Libreboot have both had about 20 releases between them, many of which are stable releases, with lots of new hardware support added in both projects.

Copyright is lame. All material on this website is released under the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 license, which you can read here: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt

Do what you will with what I blog. Fair use law lets you pretty much use it verbatim in clever ways anyway (in ways that defeat the purpose of putting any restrictions on any of it). Have fun!

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