>I'm afraid we'll end up in a world where you can get that libre and free stack on high performance hardware, but won't get access to all the IP, including IP c

>I'm afraid we'll end up in a world where you can get that libre and free stack on high performance hardware, but won't get access to all the IP, including IP cores for embedded FPGAs and IP like streaming media including audio, video and games. Exactly. Also what worries me is that all it takes is one significant terrorist event to be organized over a libre software stack to get all this treachery in computing to become law too.