Re: FSF continuously harms Free Hardware

[Paul Sutton]

On 27/01/2022 04:13, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>    > https://www.wired.com/story/22-year-old-builds-chips-parents-garage/
>
> He has made a chip with 1400 transistors.  I think that
> making a processor capable of running GNU/Linux like the 15-year-old
> processor in my T400s will take at least another decade, and probably
> two or three.
>
> I'm sure people will get there someday.  But RYF's policies should
> be designed for the next few years, not for long-term policies.
> We can't push long-term policies, we can only encourage them.

How do you feel about devices from suppliers such as Pine64,  these 
allow for free software to be installed, but also for parts to be 
removed and replaced.

https://pine64.com/

It would be good to be able to fabricate our own chips,  Perhaps in the 
mean time we can come up with a subset of devices that exist now, so we 
can get behind them.

It is almost like we want to go back to the 70s where computers 
sometimes came in kit form that you soldered together,  just with a 
modern twist,   we would need a major education shift to being 
reprogrammed with the maker (or more hacker) mindset,  we are rebuilding 
that, just slowly.

Paul

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