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Linux Firmware Service Calls on Hardware Makers to Help Fund It - OMG! Ubuntu

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Linux's firmware hub, the LVFS, announces a new funding model with quotas for vendors to firm up its future. Most vendors will see no change. You're reading Linux Firmware Service Calls on Hardware Makers to Help Fund It, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
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The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) ensures that the firmware of devices can also be updated under Linux. Its maintainer now openly asks the hardware manufacturers for help and threatens to be restricted within the framework of a sustainability plan. The LVFS project would like to hire some more developers. They are to relieve the maintainer Richard Hughes on the one hand and

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OMG! Ubuntu! broke the news in on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.
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