Thanks for pointing that out-
At the time of the post it sounded like they were eliminating the last
barriers to it being freedom-hostile. I forgot about this other piece. My
thinking was it was a GPU issue only. I have had a chance to skim it although
not in detail. I even missed the Raspberry Pi presentation at Libre Planet
2012.
I have to say I appreciate other people investigating it and posting back. It
is challenge to keep up on the details. Particularly of projects we're not
involved in. Our focus is the desktop and we don't have the resources to
delve into such a project at the moment. I've only been looking into it in
severely limited fashion. Mainly through others. I did finally (after much
hesitation) get around to buying a Raspberry Pi and a VIA APC. I have not
actually turned the Raspberry Pi on personally. No time. I did experiment
with the VIA APC a bit. Again- to a very limited extent. We don't have
information on either on our web site (obviously not through
libre.thinkpenguin.com, and not otherwise either, for now). Which really
should surprise anyone here. We're focused on supporting free software and to
the limited extent we do support other distributions it's mainly revolves
around compatibility with free pieces (drivers).
Both the Raspberry Pi and VIA APC are non-x86. Neither are freedom friendly
and I'm still getting my feet wet in the non-x86 world so having something is
probably a good idea. I would not advise others to get one unless your
planning to work on freeing the device.
