Would You Love A Open and free Hardware Company that has fsf compliant
software installed?
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Bright_Confidence769 · 2022-03-10 11:02



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nv-elisp · 2022-03-10 16:09

Not enough information. What do they do?

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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.

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art_else · 2022-03-11 00:28

[https://puri.sm/](https://puri.sm/) is one that makes such hardware.