[Discuss] OSHW & Economics

[Matt Maier]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Javier Serrano <Javier.Serrano at cern.ch>wrote:

> On 20.11.2013 21:48, Matt Maier wrote:
> > If someone is "free" to
> > do something, but can't afford to, they don't consider the freedom
> relevant.
>
> Let's agree to disagree on that. I do consider the freedom relevant, and
> I am not the only one.


I finally found this thing where Richard Stallman talked about "free
hardware" specifically. As you can see, his impression of "free as in
speech" hardware is that the freedom isn't relevant since it's so hard to
exercise the freedom.

http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999062200505NWLF

"*Because copying hardware is so hard, the question of whether we're
allowed to do it is not vitally important. I see no social imperative for
free hardware designs like the imperative for free software.*"
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