Re: [Trisquel-users] Some current free software friendly hardware

[chris]

In reference to statement 2. I'm pretty sure his speech wasn't about "open  
hardware". “Open hardware” has a specific meaning. It was coined by a  
different group that is not really against free software, but may not  
entirely understand, or agree with the free software movement. RMS takes  
issue with its naming. Obviously he doesn't like the word open to begin with.  
However the “open hardware” movement is about the designs being  
completely available. To  RMS  this is not an issue. Users can't do anything  
with those designs anyway.

RMS's speech was referring to producing free software friendly hardware, and  
not to the designs to such hardware being completely available. His concern  
is the source code to all writable areas containing binary code be available.  
The reason he is concerned about this is because there hasn't been enough  
cooperation from industry to produce free software friendly hardware and the  
more hardware that comes how the more hardware that has firmware. 10 years  
ago there was significantly fewer chipsets dependent on non-free firmware.  
Keyboards wireless devices, CPUs, etc didn't include little bits of code. Now  
they do.