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> Then let me be clear. By "free hardware" I mean that the following is
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I support the right to repair movement. However, when it deals
with computers and
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> But they are not very influencial and seems to all follow a road to
> failure
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> "Essentially, "free hardware" means that you can make
> the hardware
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If you want to speak of "free hardware", what, concretely, should it
mean? Can you
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> So if FSF took a stronger stand on Free Hardware Designs
The FSF does not take
> How far should guidelines for hardware go? Can it go as far as saying
it must be something you can build in a garage or can it be, designs
available but must send to away for fabrication? There are varying
degrees of freedom in one or the other. -- Ivie
I think that both being able to build
> Modifying *integrated circuits* is virtually impossible -- Leah
I disagree on that. From my experience it's very possible, but it's
usually not economical as people lack the infrastructure and knowledge
to develop those at home, where crowd-sourcing and outsourcing the
fabrication to a 3rd
A few thoughts on Leah's definition of "free hardware":
+ The gist is clear
"Essentially, "free hardware" means that you can make
the hardware yourself."
What I think is envisioned here is a world in which hardware
manufacture is for many practical purposes driven by software:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 07:31:11 -0800
Matt Ivie wrote:
> Here is an interesting case where someone is fabricating processors
> themselves:
>
> https://www.wired.com/story/22-year-old-builds-chips-parents-garage/
This changes everything. Thank you for linking this!
Richard, you should definitely
On January 25, 2022 5:18:17 AM PST, Leah Rowe via libreplanet-discuss
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>On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:03:20 +
>Leah Rowe wrote:
>
>> It's only in the last 40 years that things have gone down-hill. In the
>> 70s, you could open up your electronics and there would be schematics
>> showing
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:14:16 +
Jacob Hrbek wrote:
> > Modifying *integrated circuits* is virtually impossible -- Leah
>
(I clarified in a follow-up email that modifying the final assembly is
hard, but that the verilog and such are more practical to modify. I
didn't address fabrication
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:14:16 +
Jacob Hrbek wrote:
> > Modifying *integrated circuits* is virtually impossible -- Leah
>
> I disagree on that. From my experience it's very possible, but it's
> usually not economical as people lack the infrastructure and knowledge
> to develop those at home,
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:03:20 +
Leah Rowe wrote:
> It's only in the last 40 years that things have gone down-hill. In the
> 70s, you could open up your electronics and there would be schematics
> showing you how everything was put together. It's possible that
> you could send in a device for
Hi Richard,
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 12:48:36 +
Leah Rowe wrote:
> Modifying *integrated
> circuits* is virtually impossible
I want to clarify that I mean once they are built. With verilog source,
you can modify microprocessors quite easily, to then build your own.
See: RISCV project. Completely free ISA
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