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Would You Love A Open and free Hardware Company that has fsf compliant software installed?

Bright_Confidence769 · 2022-03-10 11:02
nv-elisp · 2022-03-10 16:09
Not enough information. What do they do?
holgerschurig · 2022-03-10 19:57
No, not really. The FSF is too ... harsh on this. Should I have a schematics in VHDL or Verilog, then I can synthesize this and create an ASIC out of it. With that, the FSF has no problems. But I can create from the same VHDL or Verilog source also a blob that gets loaded into an FPGA. And now suddenly this is a problem? This harsh requirements for FSF approved hardware rules out a lot of hardware, e.g. no Atheros 10k based wireless card, none from Intel etc etc. I'll be relegated to old hardware. For me, this "freedom" will limit me too much.
art_else · 2022-03-11 00:28
[https://puri.sm/](https://puri.sm/) is one that makes such hardware.