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Generally, rms does not advocate free hardware (free as in freedom). You might be interested in this article from 1999: http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructur
by kleiba 13y ago
Generally, rms does not advocate free hardware (free as in freedom). You might be interested in this article from 1999:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999062200505NWLF http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999062200505NWLF
- aclevernickname 13y agoI think you're misrepresenting RMS. In that article, he is mostly saying that hardware cannot be properly copyrighted/copylefted, and then pushes for open access to hardware interface specifications. The closest to "not advocat[ing] free hardware" I can see in the article is where RMS states that there is (at that time) no way to download hardware the way we download software. correct me if I'm wrong.
- kleiba 13y agoWell, if I misrepresented him then certainly not intentionally. However, please have a look at this talk by rms where he addresses the question of free hardware in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNBMdDaYhZA&t=7m1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNBMdDaYhZA&t=7m1s