Why hasn't free hardware become big as free software? How

consumer-grade 3d printing is no where close to good enough

>>57734601

Because IRL socialism doesn't work. The hardware doesn't grow on trees, someone has to pay for it. If you're not paying for it then who is?

>>57734601
>big as free software
So, not big? Anyone can write software but you need tons of capital, factories, and asian children to make computer hardware

>>57734722
Who paid for things before money existed?

>>57734911
The jews

>>57734601
because it takes massive infrastructure to make most parts as it is now >>57734704

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>>57735120
similar to how there was no free software being shared when you needed more infrastructure than the layman could obtain to write it maybe

>>57734601
Because making hardware is not something you can just do at home. You cannot just make microchips, circuit boards and shit.

Some guy tried to make a fully free-as-in-stallman VGA card, the 1MB Cirrus Logic from your first PC from 1995 could do more than that.

>>57734601
We need more retailers and shills, that's it.

>>57734722
>>57734733
>>57735120
How hard can it be to kickstarter it?

>>57735155
>Some guy tried to make a fully free-as-in-stallman VGA card, the 1MB Cirrus Logic from your first PC from 1995 could do more than that.
Tell me more