forgive me, I've writen the first half as a rant. dam it why is it yet more disposable junk that keeps being mention here. that thing has non-free gpu = junk device = landfill. as the gpu drivers are forbidden knowage it's stuck to old ubuntu. forever most likely unless massive reverse engineering effort. all there things are short term thinking. Aren't you sick of one off devices that *might* be free software friendly? Wouldn't you like a long-term approach? well there a project that was been working very hard at a long-term solution that has far for impact. buy one imp and they give a imp to someone, that is such a small impact. better can be done.
EOMA-68 is breaking the unsustainable status quo. how would you like buying into eoma-68 means instead of buy one give one it's buy one make everything cheaper for all, which makes it more accessible to the poor. for example funds for giving computers to the poor, give more for the same amount of money. that the prices of all types of devices are reduced in mass and 2rd hand ones are not obsolete so quickly and are of equal use to who there given to. where instead of the huge strugle for a one off, single product free software laptop that doesn't get mass volume and so is not assable to the masses. you have a separation of device from computing brains. to make device faster you swap a card with the push of a button. this means you don't need to make a free desktop then a free tablet then a free laptop, then a free this then a free that nooo. you have desktop shell, laptop shell, tablet shell, games console shell, tv shell, <insert type of device>,etc and to make it free it's one two three: 1. eject brain card 2. insert 100% free software brain card 3. oh wait your done and you can do that to any device type. now the struggle is making a 100% free software brain card. In the mean time we can use existing brain cards like the allwinner a20 that oh btw run %100 free software (including reverse engineered 3d) and SOC's (the brain chip) that are fsf diagnosable come along get endorsed and then you (pre-)order and it comes in the post and you can swap it in 5 secs and have your <device> now running a fsf endorsed brain card. it gets better now the up hill struggle is just making the generic brain card and not a set of products. brain cards with new future SOCs that are a new arch can be made and software for the new arch ported then on your next upgrade cycle in your family you buy a box of these new design brain cards of the future and can swap them into the device you already have! ....and because all these device shells share the common brain cards, the brain cards get produced on a even huger scale giving the producer even more buying power to to buy even more of the SOCs more cheaply and SOCs we would not other wise be able to get due to too small quantises. with each brian card sold and each device sold the profits are reinvested into the next brain card, device so in the end I imagine it wouldn’t need crowd funding long term as it will be self sustaining. anyone is able to make a device or brain card as the specification is open. however to be sold under the name then need to be endorsed by the project, part of which is making sure that the brain card or device is standard compliment so you don't get sold a doggey product. so your not limited, nor dependant on one company. you know althose laptops,phones,tablets,etc that get go to wast cus they have last years brain would be a thing of the past. anyway they are doing a crowd fund for the micro-desktop device, think of it as very basic mini desktop. vga out and buy a separate usb audio interface for audio or use the micro hdmi on the brain card it self. the micro desktop is being sold with the first brain card the allwinner a20 a duel core cpu with 1 or 2gb ram and I believe the option of a wooden box. software is tested and working. I belive it can play Full HD movies, it's deferential possible on the a20 but I can't remember if it's been done yet on this brain card. if not now I expect it will. show your interest and support and add your self to the crowdfund list. I am. https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop oh btw there more brain cards in the pipe line. Included ones that can be endorsed by the FSF! (saying that, the a20 runs fully with only free software including 3d acceleration.) find the news on: http://rhombus-tech.net/ Got a dream for a device? Add it: http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/ I've added a few my self :D right, time for me to go to bed! got questions? best place is the arm-netbook mailing list: http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/
