Hallo Luke, i think it makes no sense forwarding your email to the list and to marcus. I have the impression, that marcus cannot accept the fact that he is wrong.
Never the less, i will use your arguments on the mailing list. Wolfgang Am Freitag, 29. Juli 2016, 21:09:14 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > wolfgang, hi, i ran this one through google translate: > http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-de/2016-July/008455.html > > whilst i can reply cc to marcus directly, what i cannot do is reply > into the conversation at the right point in the thread (because i am > not subscribed, and gmane is now gone... argh!) - could i ask you to > forward this on, on my behalf? > > marcus, you wrote (in german): > > The proposed processor comes from Allwinner. This manufacturer > > is only known for a variety of GPL violations. > > > > Personally, I would therefore rather refrain from support of the project. > > you're wrong about the GPL violations on the A20, although i can fully > understand the misunderstanding. but that's beside the point: the > alternatives are much *much* worse. would you prefer that we used a > processor that was DRM-locked? or that had Treacherous Zone? or that > had a back-door co-processor that could do arbitrary remote > code-execution without your knowledge? or that booted up from > proprietary DRM-locked arbitrary signed AND ENCRYPTED bootloaders > either from the GPU or from the main CPU itself? > > all of these processors exist with *all* of the above absolutely > terrible and totally unethical designs *BUILT IN*. > > by total contrast, the Allwinner A20 is: > > (a) "unbrickable". it was designed this way so that there is > **ABSOLUTELY NO WAY** that any accidental application of DRM by an > incompetent China OEM could "lock" the product containing an A20 by > mistake. turns out that this is perfect for ensuring that people can > upload their own OS. > > (b) entirely GPL-compliant. this has taken a *LOT* of work by the > software libre community, pressurising allwinner and carrying out > reverse-engineering over many years. to say "i will refrain from > support of the project" is therefore, if i may be absolutely blunt, > quite disrespectful to the people who's hard work in the linux-sunxi > community has brought you this OPPORTUNITY to completely own your own > hardware, free from spyware. > > the situation with allwinner is complex. there are many extremely > powerful investors who in Chinese Society are "above the pay-grade" of > the Directors in terms of China "Social Status". this is causing them > huge problems internally, despite the **DIRECT** wishes of the Vice > President! > > it is a very strange situation that could really only happen in china. > far from ostracising and boycotting them, we need instead to *BUY* > products that are GPL-compliant, so that the Vice President has a way > to say, "look, these products are fully compliant with the GPL and > they're SELLING REALLY WELL". > > if you boycott the entire company, that actually fucks up everything > i'm trying to achieve, and actually DESTROYS any opportunity to > introduce software freedom. > > l. > > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-de/2016-July/008504.html > > > > yay found the fsfe-de archives, these are actually really hard to > > find, they're not listed publicly and can't be found with a google > > search. > > > > l. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: [email protected] Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.
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