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#+title: Hardware freedom
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#+title: Digital freedom
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A discussion about hardware freedom. Contains comparisons with software
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A discussion about digital freedom in general.
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freedom.
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#+startup: showall
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This is a work in progress (more so than my other articles).
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https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria
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* Concepts
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https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
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https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html
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http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/page/FirmwareInjector/?rev=322
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http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/08/the_four_freedoms_applied_to_h.html
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/19/intel-drm-a-crippled.html
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http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discussion/2010-January/001635.html
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http://www.ofb.biz/safari/article/353.html
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http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2006/12/8428.ars
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100614#feature
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http://libreplanet.org/wiki/When_should_firmware_be_free
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http://www.datamation.com/osrc/article.php/3787736/Proprietary-Firmware-and-the-Pursuit-of-a-Free-Kernel.htm
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https://lwn.net/Articles/352555/
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https://lwn.net/Articles/460654/
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http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/gta04-owner/2011-October/000375.html
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http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/gta04-owner/2011-September/000325.html
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(Currently mostly about social networking.)
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centralisering
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I don't want to depend on something which I cannot control.
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I don't want to depend on something which I cannot influence.
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depend on:
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+ data durability
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+ privacy
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I like to follow this rule: When I create something substantial which I want to
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I like to follow this rule: When I create something substantial which I want to
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share, I host it myself. But why? Because I don't want to depend on something
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share, I host it myself. But why? Because I don't want to depend on something
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which I cannot control.
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which I cannot control or strongly influence.
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Downside loss of social
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A decentralized social network must be widespread for people to be able to share
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private data with a select few, i.e. the select few must be used to using the
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Requires widespread use of a decentralized social network to share private data
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decentralized network.
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with a select few.
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The difficulty of leaving a service is determined by the complexity of the
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The difficulty of leaving a service is determined by the complexity of the
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social features of the service.
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social features of the service.
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In general, it's a balance. I try not to make others depend on Facebook because
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In general, it's a balance. I try not to make others depend on Facebook because
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of me; I do that by not uploading large photo galleries to Facebook. However,
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of me; I do that by not uploading large photo galleries to Facebook. However,
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photo galleries on Facebook have quite complex features.
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photo galleries on Facebook have quite complex features.
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Collaborative sites
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* Hardware freedom links (different views)
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https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria
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https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
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https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html
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http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/page/FirmwareInjector/?rev=322
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http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/08/the_four_freedoms_applied_to_h.html
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/19/intel-drm-a-crippled.html
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http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discussion/2010-January/001635.html
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http://www.ofb.biz/safari/article/353.html
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http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2006/12/8428.ars
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100614#feature
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http://libreplanet.org/wiki/When_should_firmware_be_free
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http://www.datamation.com/osrc/article.php/3787736/Proprietary-Firmware-and-the-Pursuit-of-a-Free-Kernel.htm
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https://lwn.net/Articles/352555/
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https://lwn.net/Articles/460654/
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http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/gta04-owner/2011-October/000375.html
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http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/gta04-owner/2011-September/000325.html
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I think hardware design freedom is as important as software freedom because of
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the same reasons I think free software is important. The fact that modifying
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hardware is much more difficult than modifying software is irrelevant as the
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ability to do so it still useful, and as gaining the knowledge behind a design
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