* Thomas Lord <[email protected]> [2022-01-25 22:53]: > A few thoughts on Leah's definition of "free hardware": > > + The gist is clear > > "Essentially, "free hardware" means that you can make > the hardware yourself."
For me it is not clear. Hardware is not usually "licensed", we cannot find common copyrights for hardware. Telling "free hardware" reminds me only of promotional campaigns in computer shops or projects with free laptops for children. It does not bring the word "free" clearly in the context of freedom, it rather reminds of pricings and charges. This may change over the time and it depends of public relations, propaganda and marketing. My advise is to choose words wisely, as that will influence all of the future of free hardware as you mean it. This article pinpoints the problem: Free Hardware and Free Hardware Designs - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.en.html Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
