Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Purism is not free hardware

2018-03-08 Thread taii...@gmx.com
I thank you for your time but you have not answered my other question re: false advertising. ___ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Purism is not free hardware

2018-03-08 Thread John Sullivan
"taii...@gmx.com" writes: > Again I still can't understand as to why purism gets so much air time > on the FSF website and the tech news media yet legitimately libre > hardware gets none. > "PureOS" is simply a debian clone used to peddle non-free laptops and > now purism has

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Purism is not free hardware

2018-03-08 Thread Stefan Nagy
Am 08.03.2018 17:05 schrieb Stefan Nagy: Am 07.03.2018 23:04 schrieb taii...@gmx.com: "Grassroots: Purism, makers of fine free hardware" https://libreplanet.org/2018/sponsors Purism isn't free hardware, […] You are right, they don't offer free hardware. Since I respect their work I wrote

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Purism is not free hardware

2018-03-08 Thread Stefan Nagy
Am 07.03.2018 23:04 schrieb taii...@gmx.com: "Grassroots: Purism, makers of fine free hardware" https://libreplanet.org/2018/sponsors Purism isn't free hardware, […] You are right, they don't offer free hardware. Since I respect their work I wrote them an email and asked them to correct

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] The state of Libre Hardware

2018-03-08 Thread D. Joe
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 04:55:30PM -0500, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > Up until recently your computer was truly yours, only recently have both > x86_64 OEM's Intel and AMD added black box supervisor processors and > hardware level code signing enforcement as a backdoor and to currently > prevent you

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Can we pay cash at the door?

2018-03-08 Thread Georgia Young
Yes. On 03/07/18 16:48, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > I do not want to provide my real name nor support the credit card > companies that advocate for a cashless society. > > ___ > libreplanet-discuss mailing list > libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org >

[libreplanet-discuss] Visiting LibrePlanet from Aurora, IL - USA

2018-03-08 Thread Nelson
Hi LibrePlanet people, My name is Nelson Marquez. I'm 22 years old. Originally from Venezuela, living in Illinois since September 2016. I've been using GNU/Linux for the past two or three years. I do my best to keep myself up-to-date with what's going on in the FLOSS community - use FLOSS

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] The state of Libre Hardware

2018-03-08 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> The GNU GPL speaks of User Freedom, but this is only for bits. Indeed I agree, however the articles in GNU.org (search for "hardware design") point out that the GPL is *the best* for licensinghardware designs. The article also points out that there is no "free hardware" because one can't really