There are many threats to freedom in the digital world now: corporations like Apple make products that lock you into their walled gardens, track your every move, profile your activity so that privacy is all but a quaint notion, and they cripple the capabilities of devices by incorporating DRM deep into the metal, and they can disable devices if they regard your activity as questionable. Open hardware could relieve some of these threats.
The Free Software Foundation has elaborated many of these issues and taken some action, but doesn't pay a lot of attention to hardware. They are working on a free bios. The Tor project is working on privacy. Couldn't you ally with these groups to produce a product that is truly free ? An off-the-shelf machine that is free of malware ? On 05/27/2012 07:31 AM, Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
Hi, everyone, I'm sure you've noticed that the OGP has been rather dead for a good long time. I'm hoping to find opportunity to change that in the not too distant future, and I'm looking for some suggestions and discussion on this. Let's keep in mind that although the OGP is ostensibly about graphics, many of us are interested in open hardware in general, and I don't consider any open hardware project to be off topic on OGML.
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