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Re: FSF continuously harms Free Hardware
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Jacob Hrbek |
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Re: FSF continuously harms Free Hardware |
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Sat, 29 Jan 2022 15:12:05 +0000 |
> What I cannot agree to is to call it "open source hardware" as that
is misleading, it is also contrary to "free software". As open source is
not necessarily free software. There is a lot of confusion. -- Louis
> Maybe you do not see it. Research. Term "open source" is also used as
term for proprietary software with published sources. It is used for
variety of products worldwide. -- Louis
I agree that this is a problem, but as presented FSF doesn't enable us
to use other terms as it's too software-oriented so this is the best we
can do even when the hardware is released under GPLv3.
On 1/29/22 08:17, Jean Louis wrote:
What I cannot agree to is to call it "open source hardware" as that is
misleading, it is also contrary to "free software". As open source is
not necessarily free software. There is a lot of confusion.
--
Jacob Hrbek
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- Re: We can't reject all nonfree hardware with today's technology., (continued)
- Re: We can't reject all nonfree hardware with today's technology., Jacob Hrbek, 2022/01/30
- Re: FSF continuously harms Free Hardware, Jean Louis, 2022/01/30
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