On 03/12/2016, Merlin Büge <[email protected]> wrote: > To me, the point of this campaign is not to get cool free hardware, but to > create/restore the very foundations that are needed to have them, i.e. > research (so we can build on that and have that knowledge) and development > (so we / other people have the ability to buy free and high-performance > computing hardware). > > Really, if you're reading a bit on what's going on in the world regarding > the freedom of hardware (e.g. article above, more and more lockdowns), imo > it's easily justified to spend a few hundred dollars or, if you can, a few > thousands for it -- without obtaining any actual hardware. > > Just imagine that *awesome* moment when Talos got funded, knowing that > *you* were an indispensable part of it!
I agree with all of this. I have done my best to persuade people I know who might be able to influence institutional budgets, to seriously consider the TALOS; and to spread the word to others who might at least be able to donate. I take my hat off to everyone who has supported the project. -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
