congrats and welcome to the community!
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so real
Hey all,
Iâm a 2 year dev starting off in Ruby on Rails
Looking forward to one day being able to get my first framerwork laptop 
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Hello everyone, and especially the Framework team!
I am an electronic design engineer, working with very high-speed digital logic, parallel processing with FPGAs, and embedded processor systems. I have used Linux since before the kernel turned v1.0.
I really like the hardware design of the Framework laptops, the reported support, and the Framework business model. Everyone I have met with a Framework laptop has given it glowing reviews.
I should be ready to order one, but there is a realâapparently ongoingâproblem with the firmware support model. Depending on proprietary firmware for âpackagedâ PCs is a mess. It is clearly worse for smaller volume, reconfigurable products like the Framework laptops.
My preferred solution, would be for you to enable and encourage development of open-source solutions for the firmware. You could build your mainboardsâmaybe in collaboration with the Coreboot projectâwith features to accelerate development of of open firmware. One example would be to have an A / B flash for safer testing. This would be a small marginal cost, and a great advance for your goal of sustainability.
For those of us who care about privacy, this would also allow you to minimize the intrusive proprietary firmware so common on Intel and AMD PCs.
You might even be able to collaborate with System76. I understand that they are developing open source firmware written in Rust for their computers. For them to do this, they would have to have a deep understanding of all the functions required in the firmware.
I hope you can do something to fix your firmware problem. I see it as a black eye on an otherwise excellent computer.
Cheers!
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Welcome to the community Matthew!
Welcome to the community Bob, and thanks for the suggestions and feedback!