[Arm-netbook] FSF: Respects Your Freedom hardware product certification

[luke.leighton]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
<arm-netbook at aross.me> wrote:

> http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom
>
> I feel like loading an formal businessman character (An interest is drama.)
> for this line: As someone who seams to be unofficially helping with
> publicity. I would recommend this. :|

 yes.  we have to find, however, a CPU which can be FSF
Hardware-Endorsed, *and* get a CPU Card made up around it.
unfortunately that means lower quality CPUs (e.g. TI's 1ghz ARM
Sitaras with no PowerVR GPU) but more money as well.

 *however*, the ORCAD/Allegro files are also available (beagleboard-xm
etc.) so the development costs e.g. using someone like quickembed
would only be about $6,000.

> Which kinder reminds me. RMS does not know of Rhombus-Tech. Must get around
> to sending that email!

 don't worry, alexander: i've been speaking to dr stallman for over 5
years, now, on and off.  i mentioned the rhombus tech thing to him
about 12 months ago, already.

 irony: the laptop chassis is fully FSF Hardware-Endorseable: it's
just the CPU Card....

 l.