> You are not well defined. It is discussion that goes on, you have not brought good arguments friend. -- Louis
You are dismissing all arguments that i've provided and refuse to take them seriously. I clearly said that Hardware files meaning schematics, gerber files, etc.. yet you keep insisting on writting manuals which development would be in direct violation of a copyright while seemingly not understanding how the fabrication works.. In short to fabricate e.g. notebook's motherboard you need gerber files so that the fabricator knows how to wire the connections together and for the assembler to put the components where they are supposed to be. Writting manuals and especially manuals of proprietary hardware or any other reverse-engineering of proprietary hardware is not helping anyone. You are also constantly dismissing my criticism without taking it seriously to claim conflict of interest where there is none and confuse this activism for Hardware Fre edom as "begging for money".. So to summarize it: RMS Inadvertently created Free Hardware Movement as it's a branch of Free Software Development with FSF being in the position of authority on the subject. People are using GPLv3 which is a license designed to protect user-freedom where in this usecase it fails to do as evident by the provided example with RepRap project and people forking their design and making it proprietary so i've proposed to follow up on their suggestion and create GPLv4 that includes Hardware Freedom and i m happy to submit a proposal for it. By promoting proprietary hardware without acknowledging Free Hardware Designs the FSF harms Free Hardware developers, I argue that ryf should add additional certification that is directly only to a hardware for that reason and that h-node should add additional attribute to clarify Hardware Freedom Rating so that people are aware about those alternatives and are not afraid to use them. Wi thout such certification i disagree that "Respect Your Freedom" deserves it's name and should be renamed to "Respects Software Freedom" to avoid passivly making Free Hardware insignificant. FSF should highlight the problems with the usage of proprietary hardware and actively promote Free Hardware to make it mainstream which benefits us all. And since FSF actively endorses and promotes Purism they should hold them accountable if their CEO says that they will release the hardware files and decade later the files are still not provided and if they fail to do so or if they fail to establish transparency then FSF should withdraw their endorsements. As Leah Rowe said Schematics to Proprietary Hardware are also important for projects like Libre Bootloaders, i personally don't support those schematics but i recognize the importance of them for Free Software development. I agree with RMS that we should figure out an official term for Free Hardware and set of rules for it so that the term is well defined and enables further activism. Why can't we do this and make Hardware Freedom significantly more sustainable? On 2/1/22 10:12, Jean Louis wrote:
You are not well defined. It is discussion that goes on, you have not brought good arguments friend.
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