[Arm-netbook] FSF-Endorseable Hardware companies

[Paul Boddie]

On Tuesday 17. March 2015 22.14.19 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> ok - does anyone know of any companies that sell Libre or
> FSF-Endorseable hardware?  i have thinkpenguin, laclinux,
> hardware-libre.fr and inatux.com on the list already, i am looking to
> contact companies that would like to help sponsor these projects, it
> is very close so i would like to keep going full-time on them now.

A while ago someone started a list of vendors of systems that promote/support 
Free Software on the FSFE Fellowship Wiki, and it has since grown 
considerably, although some entries probably need updating or removing:

https://wiki.fsfe.org/Hardware_Vendors

It might be worth a look. FSF-endorseable status is not mentioned, but that 
has mostly been a rarity until now, anyway, especially in the PC part of the 
market. Generally, a lot of these lists on the Web are out-of-date or feature 
all sorts of products that you might not care about, but the aim is to keep 
this one useful.

Paul

P.S. You'll also see that Rhombus Tech is mentioned in the Single Board 
Computers section of that page. When this was updated some time back, the 
situation as far as I understood it was that the EOMA-68 initiative might 
assert patents against people making "unauthorised" products based on the 
published standard, and so a warning note was added. Since then, I think your 
policies (and associates) have changed and that you're aiming to go down the 
trademark-plus-certification route to avoid unsafe clones bringing the 
initiative into disrepute (which I also imagine is a lot more viable a 
strategy, anyway). I'll gladly update the above page to clarify the situation 
if this is indeed the case. :-)