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An operating system containing only libre software, I assume. At least in my book, software must respect the freedoms of its users in order to be ethical. And t
by valvar 6y ago
An operating system containing only libre software, I assume. At least in my book, software must respect the freedoms of its users in order to be ethical. And their OS is indeed libre and respects its users.
- threeseed 6y agoSounds pretty hypocritical if you're not running it on libre hardware as well. I assume Purism makes their own CPUs, memory etc ?
- kelnos 6y agoNo, but they are running on hardware they've carefully selected that does not require any non-free software or binary blobs to operate, and they include hardware kill switches for all the sensors and radios so if you still don't completely trust this "third party" hardware, you can at least shut it off and only turn it on when you really need to use it. At some point you do, unfortunately, have to compromise, because expecting a small, privacy-focused upstart to do their own silicon design and run their own fabs is just not reasonable.
- FeepingCreature 6y agoAlso the modem doesn't have DMA access to the phone's memory.
- bo1024 6y agolibre hardware isn't really a term, unless you are referring to firmware maybe. What do you mean by it? (added) For example, Stallman: > In the meantime, there is no need to reject hardware with nonfree designs on principle. Last line of this essay: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.en.html