Re: FSF continuously harms Free Hardware

[Richard Stallman]

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In my view, the idea of "free hardware" is not a good concept.  The
distinction between free and nonfree software is crucially about
whether users can change it.  But most changes in hardware are
impossible.  I don't think that distinction makes sense for physical
pieces of hardware.

Rather, it makes sense for hardware _designs_.

See https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html for more
about this issue.


-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)