"Jelle Hermsen" <[email protected]> wrote (quoting adjusted): > On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:40:12 +0100, [email protected] > wrote: > > * [email protected] <[email protected]> [2012-02-08 14:18:55 > > +0100]: > > > > > What about about giving to the winner a laptop or desktop with > > > current freedom tools that one use in his day-today life - a freedom > > > box, Free Software social networks, browser and OS? > > > > This kind of hardware is a bit difficult for FSFE as a prize. Most of > > the hardware relies on non-free drivers, and we would have to find > > hardware that does not depend on that. I do not want to give something > > to a winner, which forces him to use non-free software.
> You could give away Lemote Yeeloong as a prize, they are running 100% > Free Software, including the bios. Quoting http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.html: | 1) The world's first fully free software. All system source | files(BIOS, kernel, drivers etc.) are free software, no close | firmware needed. Given that the BIOS is the only firmware that is explicitly mentioned to be free software, I assume "no close firmware needed" actually means "no non-free firmware except the pre-installed one". If that's the case, the system might satisfy the "no non-free drivers" requirement, but it wouldn't really be "running 100% Free Software". Of course the other firmware could be covered by the "etc.", but considering the specifications listed on the same URL that seems rather unlikely to me. Fabian
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