Seriously, why aren't we?
We're all so fussed about free software that we ignore about the monopoly that huge companies (Intel/AMD/Apple/Motorola/Ralink/etc.) have over hardware we use.
>1984+16+17
>most of us still have to install non-free firmware in order to boot properly or connect to wireless
WHY DO WE ALLOW THIS SHIT
>>61527637
I'm not sure why I bothered to respond, but I'll let you know that this post was view and subsequently discarded.
There's no market for it
>>61528055
>>61527692
t. NSA shills
>>61527637
Consumer mentality, I guess. Actually I made a Free Hardware project myself a few years ago and wasn't funded with even one dollar. Other "Free Hardware" Projects that have been scams (never delivered) or clealy liers about the "free" part have been funded left and right. People want to be part of the botnet, I guess.
do you really think Latifah or Jerome Andre care for this? they want their foodstamp by the end of the month to buy another apple product or windows
phone
>>61527637
Where could you even start that's not patented?
>>61528169
normies like their things locked down. thats why they buy iphones.
>>61527637
Where did you get that picture of me?!
>>61527637
Desing and production of hardware is expensive as hell. Software cost pennies to make in comparisson.
aside from your child pornography and communist manifesto, what else do you have to hide, /g/?
>>61527637
>some neckbeard develops open hardware to do X
>3 days later there are 300 nearly identical copies that do the same thing but are all incompatible with each other
>>61528863
shit try, faggot
>>61527637
you want to gib moneys to this crazy libreboot tranny ?