> Another question I have is do you think software or hardware is more > important?
Software, since it's very difficult to modify or copy chips. > The > question for me is why persist so long using a system that will not > release all its details or features to us as hackers? The tyranny of > x86 is alive and well and I feel tethered to it because I can't do > decent animation or graphics design without an x86 machine. Replacing it needs different skills than writing free software and it's probably not easily done with similarly small costs. > The only other architecture that MAY work > acceptibly is ARM, but I think there are similar freedom issues there > ie it's just as secret. Plus there aren't many ARM laptops out > there... Is ARM better than MIPS for this? GPUs might be a bigger problem (Lemote machines known to support a free BIOS don't play videos well, although lack of documentation is mostly not a reason for this). > Perhaps you all here think that once you have Free Software all is > solved though because spy and anti-features cannot be activated, not > as easy to track, etc. Free software doesn't solve all problems (e.g. it's easy to find hacker-unfriendly non-GPL-compatible free software licenses), but it's easier to do than solving some other important problems, some of which currently need nonfree software.
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