[Freedombox-discuss] WLAN firmware soldered onto hardware

[juca@members.fsf.org (Felipe Sanches)]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Ted Smith <tedks at riseup.net> wrote:
> If you think this is "sick," you're free to switch to OpenSPARC on your
> FPGA. But it's probably not appropriate to post an unrelated political
> argument to the Freedombox mailing list, unless you want to make it
> difficult for people to work together.
>

I disagree that it is an unrelated comment. And I thought that
Freedombox was a political thing...

Yes, I am aware of the current state of this debate and I've been
collaborating to the LinuxLibre project. You can see this wiki page I
have been working on:

http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LinuxLibre:Devices_that_require_non-free_firmware

I think that it is sick to put effort to develop a hardware shell to
hide the problematic hardware instead of simply choosing a different
hardware that is less problematic.