Hi, I'm not a Parabola hacker and I only speak for myself. I believe Paul refers to this news entry at parabola.nu:
https://www.parabola.nu/news/new-libre-hardware-crowdfunding-project-with-parabola-pre-installed/ On 15.08.2016 20:09, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > * "New Libre Hardware Crowdfunding Project" > > Saying that the hardware is libre or free is an overstatement. [...] > I think the title should be reworked, depending on whether the circuit board > design is libre or not. I agree. AFAIR the circuit board design is being withheld for now, and the designer has promised to release it at a later date (presumably under a libre license). Quoting from the campaign page: "The only exception to this rule to release everything in advance is the PCB CAD files for the Computer Card. We’re planning to release the PCB CAD files for the Computer card once sufficient units are hit that ensures any third party manufacturing runs will not undermine the project’s development or stability." - https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop > It is an overstatement to say that the computer can respect freedom. [...] > the hardware has at least > one major feature that cannot work with free software: its GPU. Thus, we can't > say that its software aspects respects freedom (despite being a candidate to > receive the FSF's RYF certification). I agree with this too. > Thus, it would be more accurate to say that the device is free-software- > friendly, which is vague enough to not be contradictory with the facts. I'm not really a big fan of the "free-software-friendly" term, exactly because it's vague (laking a definition/criteria) and it doesn't really tell users much regarding how respecting of software freedom that piece of hardware is. That's why a wide range of hardware projects feel at liberty to promote themselves as "free-software-friendly". > Of course, this situation is much better than many other computers out there, > that can't even startup without proprietary software. I agree. Instead of using the term "software-freedom-respecting" or saying it "respects your freedom" or that it "respects your software freedom", probably a better choice of words and accurate presentation is that this hardware is RYF-certifiable by FSF or that it has been allowed by FSF the provisional use of the RYF certification mark, to quote Joshua: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2016-06/msg00213.html > Sidenote: I am very happy to see projects such as the EOMA68 come to life, as > they are really moving things forward. However, I also care very much about > providing accurate information, especially after what happened with Purism. I agree and I am happy too to see such an important project implemented! Thanks, Tiberiu -- https://ceata.org https://tehnoetic.com _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.parabola.nu https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev