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The case also can be made that we streamline what open hardware means, to include: 1) no restrictions to remix and share hardware by its makers 2) no restrictions to access, remix, and share the equipment used to create that open hardware.
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So basically it's a more strict definition but as long as you're not restricted by anyone's IP to access/remix the source materials and the methods to recreate hardware, it's open.
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Marino Hernandez
<br />(just a founder of
<a href="http://www.marketply.org">Marketply</a>)
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On November 24, 2013 at 5:53 PM Matt Maier <blueback09@gmail.com> wrote:
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This is the only thing I can find that's recent and it implies that his perspective hasn't changed in 10 years.
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<a href="http://www.processmakerblog.com/uncategorized/the-processmaker-developers-meet-with-richard-stallman/">http://www.processmakerblog.com/uncategorized/the-processmaker-developers-meet-with-richard-stallman/</a>
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<em><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.390625px;">All in all, the conversation was very interesting for all involved, but Stallman was pressed to keep up with his email, so he pulled out his famous </span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.lemote.com/english/yeeloong.html">Lemote Yeeloong</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.390625px;"> laptop, a small-screen portable whose entire specs and firmware code are available for free download on the internet. The appearance of the legendary device provoked a rumination about what this new type of hardware should be termed. Reacting to our use of the term “free hardware”, Stallman observed that it wasn’t really “free” in the same way as software since only companies with access to sophisticated equipment have the ability to create the hardware from the specs. Perhaps in 20 years Stallman mused that the average person would be able to create hardware from the specs, but at the current time it wasn’t in the same category as free software from the point of view of the user. Even thought hardware increasingly is developed as software with </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: #0066cc; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: #666666; line-height: 22.390625px;">Verilog</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.390625px;"> and other</span><span style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: #666666; line-height: 22.390625px; background-repeat: repeat repeat;">hardware description languages</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.390625px;">, <strong>Stallman argued that that fact didn’t make much difference for the average user of the hardware</strong>. Therefore, he suggested that we use the term “hardware with published specifications”–certainly a mouthful compared to “free hardware” (or the taboo term “</span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.openhardware.net/">open hardware</a></em>
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.390625px;"><em>“), but useful for provoking thought about the future of hardware development.</em>"</span> [emphasis added]
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Although the Free Software Foundation has certified some hardware as "respecting your freedom." So there's that.
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<a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom">http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom</a>
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