Watched the video & this guy is either heavily biased, as in involved personally in the first Libreboot project, or he's a moron.

He pushes some small issues out of proportion & makes a big deal out of it.

It's natural that, anyone naming their product "GNU" something is getting a cease & desist. It's not like they are evil, it's that you are forced to do it by law, because if you don't send it out, at some point anyone can use your trademark since you allowed this one company to use the name & without sending them a cease & desist.

On the other side, naming your project Libreboot is fine, if it's not a registered trademark or anything. Not sure, if it is, in this case, but still. GNU is a huge thing known around the entire world, while Libreboot is a tough bit deeper in the Free Software rabbit hole.

There's also no such thing as a "hostile fork". If it respects some GPL-like license, it may not be "hostile" or else the License type just wouldn't be good enough to survive in the real world.

The guy in the video really needs to get real & educate himself about such stuff, before ranting about it to his peers & fans.

This feels more like a "I want more views" type of video.

At least, that's the impression I'm getting, when I see this guy for the first time, don't know what he does, how he does & what else he does.

Forgot to mention, that I also oppose the concept of using some old laptops forever, just because you can.

I think, it is perfectly valid & should be encouraged(!) to drop support for devices which are at least as big as laptops & yet have clearly less power than a small Raspberry Pi.

Running such obsolete devices is not only a chore & sometimes a safety hazard, but also a waste of energy. We shouldn't waste the amount of energy a very old PC device needs, just to get an old single-core & 1GB RAM performance. Doing this is insane, except you live in a cave & have no other option to do that.

If that were the case though, you probably wouldn't have any internet & power access, whatsoever, anyway.

The guy points out the list of laptops, which lose support on those changes, as if it were a big deal.

No, not supporting some 20 year old laptop is not a big deal. Should be normal.

I'm not saying, Free Software should pull a Windows/Apple & just support the PCs from the past 2 two years.

I'm saying, if you can get a Raspberry Pi for 50 bucks, which is much better than your laptop & uses less energy, then stop demanding support for your obsolete device.