On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]
> wrote:

> -
> > There's probably no help with them unless you can show them the useful
> > FLOSS term, point out that the Open Source Definition derives from
> > the Debian Free Software Guidelines (and has since been rather
> > disclaimed by one of its authors).
> >
> > Libre guarantees slightly more than open source :)
>
>  i know that, you know that.... but they've taken the libre definition
> of the "four freedoms", transliterated it to a hardware world... and
> called it OPEN HARDWARE (!!!)
>
> ​Not perfectly. In theory, really "libre" hardware ​should make the chip
sources available too. What is classified as "open source hardware" hardly
have any non-secret chips, because the definition they came up with allows
that.

​Best regards,​

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