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"A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software." Looks like this ticket will remain opened for quite a long time.
by pablasso 14y ago
"A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software."
Looks like this ticket will remain opened for quite a long time.
- derefr 14y agoI don't know--a personal computer, these days--a computer designed to only be used by one person, to only have one account and to be completely personalized to their use--is not a desktop, notebook, or tablet; it's a phone. And the majority of phones run Android. I think we're already there.
- saurik 14y agoAndroid itself is "open", not "free"; the result is that the users of Android--hardware manufacturers, not the end customer--have the right to restrict the rights of others to modify that software and benefit from its openness, a right which many vendors take advantage of: Android is thereby not an example of "free software" (with the exception of the Linux kernel it bundles, which sadly doesn't provide users much benefit in this specific context as, in addition to supporting opaque binary blobs in drivers, it continues to use GPL2, which failed to protect against the threat of hardware manufactures designing locked bootloaders).
- hexis 14y agoAlthough, you should notice that the bug specifies "only free software".
- hackmiester 14y agoIt's pretty hard to find an Android phone running only free software.
- tobylane 14y agoNvidia et al alone will probably keep that impossible in the mainstream markets, until we get (out of my area, may be misusing words) 1080p decoding on a comfortably multitasking CPU or SOC.