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On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Paul Boddie paul@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On Monday 22. August 2016 09.31.45 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/fsf-ryf-background
this update is mostly for archive / historical purposes so that it can be referred to in the future, for anyone wishing to understand why software libre is an important integral part of a business model. most notably i managed to find that article about the intel / valve-steam collaboration. also really important was paul's post as it gave a different perspective.
i'm tracking down leads so that when i go to visit allwinner i can propose a few things for them.
That is a great post: very comprehensive, very readable. It gives people the opportunity to actually understand a bit more about just about all of the factors involved.
Paul
P.S. Sadly, I think some people don't want to understand and/or think we all have enough cash lying around to fund competitive silicon ourselves and/or do endless respins of the concept with their favourite processor of the moment, as if it were some kind of rich man's hobby as opposed to being a genuine initiative to further Free Software and libre hardware adoption.
well... let's explain it to them and invite them to fund it.
l.