Support the Libre Tea Computer Card
OK, this looks functional enough to be useful to at least some folks around here, yet small enough to be doable, and a useful step towards RYF/libre computing hardware. I hope they are successful. Zenaan ----- Forwarded message from "Donald Robertson, III, FSF" <donald@fsf.org> ----- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:49:59 -0400 From: "Donald Robertson, III, FSF" <donald@fsf.org> Reply-To: "Donald Robertson, III, FSF" <donald@fsf.org> Subject: Support the Libre Tea Computer Card **Read online: <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/support-the-libre-tea-computer-card-a-candidate-for-respects-your-freedom-certification>.** Dear Mr Zenaan Harkness, The Earth-friendly EOMA68 Computing Devices project is a crowdfunding campaign run on Crowd Supply to produce a line of hardware products that are ecologically responsible and built based on royalty-free, unencumbered hardware standards. They write:
"Now imagine if you owned a computing device that you could easily fix yourself and inexpensively upgrade as needed. So, instead of having to shell out for a completely new computer, you could simply spend around US$50 to upgrade — which, by the way, you could easily do in SECONDS, by pushing a button on the side of your device and just popping in a new computer card. Doesn’t that sound like the way it should be?"
[This project][1] certainly sounds appealing, but only if the computer hardware is designed and configured to run software that does as much as possible to respect your freedom and ensure your control over your device. Fortunately, one option you have when backing this project is to purchase a Libre Tea Computer Card. After working closely with the developers and reviewing a sample test board, we are confident that their plans are to create a device that can achieve our [Respects Your Freedom (RYF)][2] certification. [1]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop [2]: https://www.fsf.org/ryf The project is being developed by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton of [Rhombus-Tech][3] and is sponsored by Christopher Waid of [ThinkPenguin][4], a company that sells [multiple RYF-certified hardware products][2]. It is exciting to see passionate free software advocates in our community working with OEMs to produce a computer hardware product capable of achieving RYF certification. We hope that this is the first of many computing systems they are able to design and build that respect your freedom. [3]: http://rhombus-tech.net [4]: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/ The Libre Tea Computer Card is built with an Allwinner A20 dual core processor configured to use the main CPU for graphics; it has 2 GB of RAM and 8 GB of NAND Flash; and it will come pre-installed with [Parabola GNU/Linux-libre][5], an [FSF-endorsed fully-free operating system][6]. [5]: https://www.parabola.nu/ [6]: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros We encourage you to [back the Libre Tea Computer Card][1]. We'll have to do another evaluation once it is actually produced to be sure it meets our certification standards, but we have high hopes. Their funding deadline is August 26th, so don't delay! Donald Robertson Copyright & Licensing Associate -- * Follow us at <https://status.fsf.org/fsf>. * Subscribe to our RSS feeds at <https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS>. * Join us as an associate member at <https://www.fsf.org/jf>. Sent from the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1335 UNITED STATES You can unsubscribe from this mailing list by visiting https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=144946&qid=20563409&h=01d4bfb3e6e84598. To stop all email from the Free Software Foundation, including Defective by Design, and the Free Software Supporter newsletter, visit https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=144946&qid=20563409&h=01d4bfb3e6e84598. ----- End forwarded message -----
Were the Allwinner GPL violations ever sorted? Would make strange bedfellows for fsf if not :) On 11 August 2016 05:59:06 BST, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
OK, this looks functional enough to be useful to at least some folks around here, yet small enough to be doable, and a useful step towards RYF/libre computing hardware.
I hope they are successful. Zenaan
----- Forwarded message from "Donald Robertson, III, FSF" <donald@fsf.org> ----- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:49:59 -0400 From: "Donald Robertson, III, FSF" <donald@fsf.org> Reply-To: "Donald Robertson, III, FSF" <donald@fsf.org> Subject: Support the Libre Tea Computer Card
**Read online: <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/support-the-libre-tea-computer-card-a-candidate-for-respects-your-freedom-certification>.**
Dear Mr Zenaan Harkness,
The Earth-friendly EOMA68 Computing Devices project is a crowdfunding campaign run on Crowd Supply to produce a line of hardware products that are ecologically responsible and built based on royalty-free, unencumbered hardware standards. They write:
"Now imagine if you owned a computing device that you could easily fix yourself and inexpensively upgrade as needed. So, instead of having to shell out for a completely new computer, you could simply spend around US$50 to upgrade — which, by the way, you could easily do in SECONDS, by pushing a button on the side of your device and just popping in a new computer card. Doesn’t that sound like the way it should be?"
[This project][1] certainly sounds appealing, but only if the computer hardware is designed and configured to run software that does as much as possible to respect your freedom and ensure your control over your device. Fortunately, one option you have when backing this project is to purchase a Libre Tea Computer Card. After working closely with the developers and reviewing a sample test board, we are confident that their plans are to create a device that can achieve our [Respects Your Freedom (RYF)][2] certification.
[1]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop [2]: https://www.fsf.org/ryf
The project is being developed by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton of [Rhombus-Tech][3] and is sponsored by Christopher Waid of [ThinkPenguin][4], a company that sells [multiple RYF-certified hardware products][2]. It is exciting to see passionate free software advocates in our community working with OEMs to produce a computer hardware product capable of achieving RYF certification. We hope that this is the first of many computing systems they are able to design and build that respect your freedom.
[3]: http://rhombus-tech.net [4]: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/
The Libre Tea Computer Card is built with an Allwinner A20 dual core processor configured to use the main CPU for graphics; it has 2 GB of RAM and 8 GB of NAND Flash; and it will come pre-installed with [Parabola GNU/Linux-libre][5], an [FSF-endorsed fully-free operating system][6].
[5]: https://www.parabola.nu/ [6]: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros
We encourage you to [back the Libre Tea Computer Card][1]. We'll have to do another evaluation once it is actually produced to be sure it meets our certification standards, but we have high hopes. Their funding deadline is August 26th, so don't delay!
Donald Robertson Copyright & Licensing Associate -- * Follow us at <https://status.fsf.org/fsf>. * Subscribe to our RSS feeds at <https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS>. * Join us as an associate member at <https://www.fsf.org/jf>.
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 06:34:32AM +0100, oshwm wrote:
Were the Allwinner GPL violations ever sorted?
Apparently still in process.
Would make strange bedfellows for fsf if not :)
Seems there's a FAQ on the fundraiser site - it has a MALI gpu, which they disable, relying on the CPU - so won't be great in default config for 3D or graphically complex games... but the dual ARM 1.2GHz speaks to that as well too I'd say. The founder/ author of this project speaks very strongly to his principles wrt all things libre.
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