09-18-2020, 01:20 AM
Information technology plays a crucial role in the transmission of
knowledge in today's world.
Unfortunately the hardware is becoming the weaker part for free and community software support.
Linux may in the future be "banned" by hardware vendors under pressure from various governments and "entertainment" producers interests.
To not allow Linux could be enough to provide the operating system with the machine and keep the bootloader locked.
I am also concerned about Nvidia's acquisition of ARM.
In this regard, I think that the Linux community and those who realize the importance of free software, unhindered from political and economic constraints, should try to equip themselves with their own hardware, immediately, while there is time.
MIPS, with its beautiful architecture, seems now to be quite neglected: it could be acquired and hardware to order produced. There is a lot of software for this architecture, used in many products with embedded Linux.
A company could be created, with free software admirers from all over the world as shareholders.
A starting point could be this community.
knowledge in today's world.
Unfortunately the hardware is becoming the weaker part for free and community software support.
Linux may in the future be "banned" by hardware vendors under pressure from various governments and "entertainment" producers interests.
To not allow Linux could be enough to provide the operating system with the machine and keep the bootloader locked.
I am also concerned about Nvidia's acquisition of ARM.
In this regard, I think that the Linux community and those who realize the importance of free software, unhindered from political and economic constraints, should try to equip themselves with their own hardware, immediately, while there is time.
MIPS, with its beautiful architecture, seems now to be quite neglected: it could be acquired and hardware to order produced. There is a lot of software for this architecture, used in many products with embedded Linux.
A company could be created, with free software admirers from all over the world as shareholders.
A starting point could be this community.