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What would be FOSS equivalent for hardware ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just like we have software developed by the community, for the community. Can we have the same ideology applied to hardware ?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Let's appreciate general purpose computers before the war against them will be successful.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't believe I'd never read that before despite being a fan of Doctorow in general. Thank you. Exceptional work. Should be mandatory reading.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

There’s a great talk on the same topic he gave at the Long Now Foundation back in 2012, the Q and A adds a bit to the users vs owners chat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I admit I have only skimmed this yet, but that was 12 years ago. Back then, copyright was a major problem for a free and open society in which people could freely communicate.

The world has changed since then. Those opposed to such a society are now more likely to talk about disinformation, radicalization, child porn, hate speech rather than copyright. Those pretexts aren't really any better of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think the most compelling reason will be performance.

In enterprise is already soldering ram directly onto the chip, it's only a matter of time until the same goes for consumer tech. Fusing the chip to the board has benefits too. When most people don't ever upgrade or repair their computer a 10% speed increase that makes upgrading impossible just makes good business sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Quite a good follow up talk pasted not so long ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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