> Perhaps there could be a way to work with the hardware makers and free cad developers to create a similar set up where for a reasonable cost you can obtain the required drivers, firmware etc. -- Torrey
I am strictly against paying for freedom, but i am not against limiting freedom until the development is paid assuming that the freedom to study and improve is not violated (freedom to redistribute can require fee for commercial use) and the party is mandated to be transparent about their financing and license enforces that "when the development cost is paid then this license automatically removes all restrictions on use and redistribute" (would be a great if GPLv4 had this clause). That said I would like to highlight the case of Purism with Librem 5 which allegedly does this approach, but they are not transparent and are likely abusing their trust by constantly hiring new people to claim that the development cost increased to infinity which is terrible for user freedom. On 1/21/22 10:20, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss wrote:
Perhaps there could be a way to work with the hardware makers and free cad developers to create a similar set up where for a reasonable cost you can obtain the required drivers, firmware etc.
-- Jacob Hrbek
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