Hi, I'm a bit of a lurker here. I've been using "open source medical technology" and "open medical technology", for example, in this manifesto: [1]https://chng.it/jzXpFspd However, I think "free design hardware" may be a better and more descriptive term. I suggest that term will work well with people who understand the design/development process. It may take more explaining to the general public.
On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 10:22 PM Richard Stallman <[2]r...@gnu.org> wrote: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I agree that this is a problem, but as presented FSF doesn't enable us > to use other terms as it's too software-oriented so this is the best we > can do even when the hardware is released under GPLv3. I don't believe that is true. I suspect that the term "open source hardware" is incoherent. If the board circuit is published under a free license, but the chip designes are not, is that hardware "open source"? If so, the term is so weak that using it is not helpful. I suggest the term "free-design hardware" to mean hardware made from free designs. -- Dr Richard Stallman ([3]https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project ([4]https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation ([5]https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer ([6]https://internethalloffame.org) _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [7]libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org [8]https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discus s -- Robert L. Read, PhD Twitter: @RobertLeeRead @pubinvention Public Invention: [9]https://www.pubinv.org Join Our Mailing list: [10]pub...@googlegroups.com YouTube: [11]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJQg_dkDY3KTP1ybugYwReg Medium: [12]https://medium.com/@RobertLeeRead References 1. https://chng.it/jzXpFspd 2. mailto:r...@gnu.org 3. https://stallman.org/ 4. https://gnu.org/ 5. https://fsf.org/ 6. https://internethalloffame.org/ 7. mailto:libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org 8. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss 9. https://www.pubinv.org/ 10. mailto:pub...@googlegroups.com 11. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJQg_dkDY3KTP1ybugYwReg 12. https://medium.com/@RobertLeeRead
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