this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I, for one, am pleased to see that you can optionally turn on nonfree firmware should you need it. The FSF my bloviate, but this was truly needed for those computing at home
It is very sad that this has become necessary, though. GPU and Wi-Fi vendors have delivered a serious setback on the path to computing freedom.
I think we would all vastly prefer that our computers worked just fine with 100% free code.
I guess we need open hardware for open drivers to be the norm.
This quite stupidly has some geopolitical implications as well, if "anyone" can manufacture decent GPUs, there goes the Western chip-making monopoly.
I don't think so. Open source hardware only specifies what the hardware can do in terms of instructions, not in which quality in terms of speed or energy efficiency.
Producing high-quality hardware would still mean that you need the means of production and that will still be the same few people as now.
It would mean tho that the firmware and drivers will be open source.