--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Muhammed Adel Afzal adel@ncf.ca wrote:
Hi Luke
Trisquel forum member tct claimed that EOMA68 is not libre hardware because the schematics (?) are not available.
which is total bollocks. he should have f*****g well asked instead of accusing.
I read your Crowd Supply page a while ago and recall (and another forum member pointed out too) that you plan to release these schematics later.
schematics are *already* available and have been available for years, as anyone who *bothered to check* - as tct clearly did not - that people here on this list have been doing reviews on a regular basis for years, one of which was done ONLY LAST WEEK. it's right here:
http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2016-August/011644.html
does that look like a link to PDF schematics? why it most certainly does, doesn't it!
Do you have anything to add or specify or reiterate on this?
other than being really annoyed that people make accusations instead of bothering to ask.... no i don't.
Although eoma68 PCB is not libre now ... it will be some time between now and when it ships, right?
it says on the page, very clearly, that i would like to see the $20,000+ financial investment recouped and the project not be disrupted by 3rd parties taking copies of the hardware and selling them during the campaign.
I don't mean to dull the mood now that the effort reached 99%. I support your effort and have faith that it's a good faith effort.
thanks. you should know that someone who's been working on software libre for 20 years and who has turned down lucrative non-free contracts should be pretty much 100% behind the libre concept!!
Sorry if you already responded on the Trisquel forum and I missed it ... there were a lot of posts on this subject.
i haven't even seen them yet.
l.