Thanks for sharing, now I know how bad are the people selling that blobbed
crap.
Interesting to see the BeagleBoard on that list as having "serious flaws".
Their BeagleBone black was the initial install target for FreedomBone, a
self-hosting project that seems to place a high value on software freedom:
https://freedombone.net/
the Libre Tea works with the "USB + HDMI Cable Set for Standalone Operation"
($15), as an alternative to the Micro Desktop Housing ($55)
somebody was searching for the full schematics of Pi3 and the Pi don't want
to share it. external link:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29=194559=1229854=full+schematic#p1229854
the libre tea computer card the shipping will cost me more than the unit also
C.H.I.P. I 've seen sellers of Orange Pi, Banana Pi and Odroid C1 in my
country and can you recommend them or any efforts on liberating them?
I attempted to liberate the CHIP (which is only $9) a while back. I got stuck
due to my lack of knowledge of compiling a kernel, but maybe you can get
further with that than I did. You’ll need
- the CHIP
https://nextthing.co/pages/chip
- a USB WiFi adapter
What about olimex and banana pi?
I am currently using a raspberry pi but it is non-free hardware and
firmware(bootcode) the software has binary blobs and the RPI foundation seems
to include licensed wolfram and java as default installed. Although there are
projects on reverse engineering bootcode to make it FLOSS but it