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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Sep 2016, at 21:07, Jay Patel <<a href="mailto:rockworldmi@gmail.com" class="">rockworldmi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">oh.. got it.. Thanks lee for taking time to explain. <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 12:25 AM, Blibbet <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:blibbet@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">blibbet@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br class="">
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On 09/16/2016 11:12 AM, Jay Patel wrote:<br class="">
> Thanks Lee. May be economically not fit for project. Maybe some FSF<br class="">
> community can pick it up with their OpenSource like redhat or something<br class="">
> like libreboot doing.<br class="">
><br class="">
> Thanks,<br class="">
> Jay<br class="">
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</span>Unfortunately, no<br class="">
FSF is focused on their Respects Your Freedom hardware certification,<br class="">
and a vague effort towards Free Hardware (the GPL equiv of the OSHWA's<br class="">
'BSD', somewhat). FSF is only focused on GPL-licensed hardware. No<br class="">
OEMs/IHVs nor IBVs would touch GPL hardware, industry has too much IP to<br class="">
keep separate.<br class="">
<br class="">
Libreboot is not focused on any new hardware, just refactoring existing<br class="">
Windows PCs or Chrome PCs, refurbing ancient IBM ThinkPads and a few new<br class="">
ARM chromebooks. With their GPL focus, it'll be hard to get mainstream<br class="">
OEM/IHV involvement, so refactoring existing closed-source-hardware<br class="">
systems seems main future.<br class="">
<br class="">
Nobody else in the OSS community is is focused on OSH. That's the job of<br class="">
the OSH community. :-)<br class="">
<br class="">
(And there is no OSF (Open Source Firmware) community focused on getting<br class="">
free (as in beer or freedom) firmware into modern hardware, there are<br class="">
the the UEFI, U-Boot and coreboot communities.)<br class="">
<br class="">
OCP only has partners that focus modular open source hardware for<br class="">
enterprise-level systems. Unclear of the economic existance of OSWHA is,<br class="">
if only to focus on economically-questionable cutsey blinkey-light<br class="">
projects, not real-world solutions. IMO, an OSH modular/secure (ITL<br class="">
stateless laptop)<br class="">
<br class="">
Having a useable laptop seems economically worth investigating. Each<br class="">
year they get more and more sealed, and the closed-source hardware gets<br class="">
more closed and complex. The fact that I'm not an economist does not<br class="">
mean this project should be considered more by the OSHWA (or some other<br class="">
OSH group). :-)<br class="">
<br class="">
PS: The recent thread on OSH SSDs is related to this. The closed-source<br class="">
world is moving towards SEDs, self-encrypting disks, which have TPM and<br class="">
use TCG's OPAL interface. There is an open source alternative, but no<br class="">
OSH implementatoins yet. :-(<br class="">
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