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  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.orgtoCybersecurity - Memes@lemmy.world•We need more opensource hardware
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    9 days ago

    Well RISCV changes a bit the paradigm. With x86 x64 or arm whatever the manufacturers had to pay a licence and sign a contract that limited what they could manufacture and probably didn’t allow for disclosure of information. Only licenced partners could build their own chips based on those architectures.

    With RISCV is different, there’s no licence for manufacturing RISCV chips, anybody can do it. No contract needed.

    Arduino is an example of that. They used their own MCU and gave it free “libre”, that’s why there’re so many arduino copies that are just the same.

  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases.English
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    1 month ago

    Wow never would have I tought that a company releasing an Open Source project was only to privatized a few years later, how strange. Not like this has happened long ago and we already have a licence specifically made to counter this bullshit…

    People does not understand why we specifically denote Free Software by their name and we do not aggregate them in the Open Source term. Companies always try to change the concepts of change to their own interests, they will always do. Adapting the free software to a much more controllable Open Source, not using GNU when has GNU, etc.

    Small details that with time change the whole meaning of concepts.

    Now we have a whole community of individual developers that have helped with Android development and which work will be wasted. Just because some intrinsic concepts about software freedom. Wasted resources that cannot be used anymore. Just as what happened with BSD and UNIX with the whole AT&T litigation and stuff. But with Android we already had the Free Software movement. I guess companies are so smart in making concepts for the most of the population.