I hope somewhere in the world exist investor with about $100 mil. to solve this equation & give the begining to such very new computing ecosystem, where all components are free & open.
2013/9/25, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>: > > Am 25.09.2013 um 15:24 schrieb Dmitriy Nikandrov: > >> Not only phones, >> but also laptops, desktops, routers, etc... Even Raspberry Pi in it's >> heart is closed source. >> >> The problem is that there is no OPEN HARDWARE chips (with open firmware): >> for Wi-Fi > > For WiFi there was some activity by OLPC but that one stalled and > nobody did pick up the task. > >> for GSM (even can't be because of patents on core specifications) >> for LTE >> for GPS > > Well, GPS can be just an serial interface with NMEA, like we have it in the > GTA04. So it is like "dumb hardware" where you have control what happens > with the data (if at all). And it can't transmit anything. > >> >> >> 2013/9/25, Nick <[email protected]>: >>> Quoth Brian Kemp: >>>> To be clear - the driver is free. The firmware is not. >>> >>> Gosh, looking at the table on the status page [0] I see that there >>> are no devices which have wifi without non-free firmware. So there >>> are no phones which have either free wifi or free gsm parts? The >>> situation sucks even more than I realised as a casual observer. >>> "Sure, you can use your phone freely, so long as you don't want any >>> connectivity." > > Conjecture: > > the equation > > free drivers/firmware for everything made available by volunteers + small > handheld + comparable in features to closed counterparts from the > supermarket + cheap == 4 > > has no solutions because it contains too many contradictions. The closest > thing you can get is 3 out of 4. > > To be disproven. > > -- hns > _______________________________________________ > Replicant mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant > _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
