I had a short message exchange with the pirates in Brussels several weeks ago and the situation in Europe* seems to be that we can only lobby to show politicians and people in certain positions why 2014/53/EU is a bad idea and let them make a choice which parts 2014/53/EU is used in their country, as individual countries can choose which parts of it they want to use.
*asterisk, because this is not the full answer of the pirates, as I don't want to quote entire emails here. They made a blog post about it, which sadly focused heavily on freifunk mesh networking if they did not edit it afterwards. --anonymiss ----------------------------------------------- Email is public and violates our right for secrecy of correspondence. Talk to me in private: http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/anonymiss/ irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/anonymiss https://psyced.org:34443/anonymiss/ If you want Email like communication which respects your privacy and rights and is secure without requiring you to learn complicated tools, use bitmessage: (public) bitmessage: BM-2cSj8qEigE3CMaLU3CwPZf7T3LvzvnttsC my vcard (sort of): http://krosos.sdf.org -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] C.H.I.P. $9 computer respects your freedom, when you don't need GPU/Video/etc., perhaps Local Time: December 6 2015 6:50 pm UTC Time: December 6 2015 5:50 pm From: t...@otherrealm.org To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org Yes, that's it, I'm glad the FSF is doing something! Aaron E-J http://otherrealm.org http://theotherrealm.org (Blog) On 2015-12-02 2:10 PM, anonymiss wrote: Are you referring to what is now being proposed ( [](https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi/Individual_Comments)https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi/Individual_Comments ) and what will happen, although individually countries can decide how it's being implemented, in summer of 2016 in Europe (Directive 2014/53/EU , Article 3.3)? --anonymiss ----------------------------------------------- Email is public and violates our right for secrecy of correspondence. Talk to me in private: http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/anonymiss/ irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/anonymiss https://psyced.org:34443/anonymiss/ If you want Email like communication which respects your privacy and rights and is secure without requiring you to learn complicated tools, use bitmessage: (public) bitmessage: BM-2cSj8qEigE3CMaLU3CwPZf7T3LvzvnttsC my vcard (sort of): http://krosos.sdf.org -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] C.H.I.P. $9 computer respects your freedom, when you don't need GPU/Video/etc., perhaps Local Time: December 2 2015 12:16 am UTC Time: December 1 2015 11:16 pm From: t...@otherrealm.org To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org In the US anyway, there is some talk of the FCC requiring radio devices to not release their code because of "security reasons." Heard this on a podcast a while back, not sure what the current state of things are. Aaron E-J http://otherrealm.org http://theotherrealm.org(Blog) On 2015-12-01 5:20 PM, Michael Lamb wrote: This is common, and is even worse for the other single-board computer ??? ... I think that CHIP is not worse than that. I'm sorry, my phrasing was unclear. I meant: CHIP is flawed, and being flawed is common. For example, the more-popular Raspberry Pi is worse than CHIP, because it can't even boot without binary blobs. You and I both agree with the statements on the FSF page. I think that the FSF page is relevant for CHIP (as of today). CHIP would not be acceptable (from the viewpoint of freedom-respecting computer) when you want to use its GPU and video encoder/decoder with full features. I agree. I hoped that the social media person's statements contrary to the FSF page meant that the design had changed and the CHIP is now freedom-respecting. But from the replies here and the lack of reply from them, I doubt this is the case. When we don't use GPU and video, a board with Allwinner SoC could be a good computer. So, it depends if it's serious flaw or not. I expect it will remain "seriously flawed" due to the WiFi/GPU/VPU blobs. But maybe a "seriously flawed" but still-usable computer for only $9 is still a good thing for many people. I hope that low price will make it effortless to introduce children and students to general-purpose computing with free software. Especially children, whom parents might discourage from using the expensive family computer (or installing free software on it) for fear they might "break" it.
