Re: [Trisquel-users] How much x86 power are we excluded from?

[magicbanana]

Everybody agrees that interoperability is good (but that has nothing to do  
with having the instructions about how to build the piece of hardware).  
Everybody agrees that the documentation about how to use a piece of hardware  
should be freely available (the best way of doing that is to have free  
drivers).

Having the documentation about how to build the hardware is something else.  
Not having it does not restrict your freedom since no user has the required  
equipment to "copy" the hardware (let alone the 3D printers and the design  
files ought to be free), that is to say she cannot exercise what would be the  
analogous freedoms to those in the software world. If, in the future, anybody  
will be able to build her own processor, that would become essential to have  
the freedoms to copy and modify the hardware. But that is a problem of the  
future and I believe it is a mistake to try to solve a problem that, today,  
does not exist (future technologies will be different from the ones we have  
today and they may help in solving the problem).