Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

Bob Ham rah at settrans.net
Fri Oct 4 19:48:19 CEST 2013


On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 21:32 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Am 03.10.2013 um 20:09 schrieb Bob Ham:

> > I would note that the GTA04 is not a Free Hardware project.
> 
> Yes that is correct. It is not Free Hardware in the strict FSF definition

I don't think FSF has a definition of "Free Hardware".  Possibly we're
ascribing different meanings to the phrase.  I'm using "Free Hardware"
to refer to free or libre hardware with the four freedoms, as described
by the (unfortunately named) Open Source Hardware and Design Alliance:

  http://www.ohanda.org/

> All of them have been as open as it could be practically done at the moment
> when some design decisions had to be made.

You've previously said that the reason you refuse to release the
hardware source files, making the device more "open", is because you
expect money in return.  Are you now saying restricting access to the
hardware source files is somehow a "design decision"?

-- 
Bob Ham <rah at settrans.net>

for (;;) { ++pancakes; }

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