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Ask HN: Should Torvalds and RMS start an open source CPU factory?
Given the recent trust issues with Intel, perhaps it’s time for two of the most trusted persons in technology to join forces and together raise the money and competence necessary to create a processor factory built from scratch using open sourced hardware and software components?
- gus_massa 9y agoThey have very different definition of free and open, so it's impossible that they agree. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization