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FSF Certifies First Device in "Respects Your Freedom" Program

Posted by Unknown on from the free-as-in-hardware dept.

Earlier this year, the Free Software Foundation announced a hardware endorsement campaign for hardware that respects the rights of its owner (no DRM, runs Free Software, support for open formats, no or freely licensed patents, etc.). Now, they've announced that the Lulzbot AO-100 3D Printer is the first device to pass certification and be endorsed by the FSF. Source code to both the hardware and software is available, naturally.

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  1. 2d printers too? by welshie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I look forward to the first compliant 2D inkjet and laser printers, even more so if they are affordable.

  2. Re:So what? by pr0nbot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The world is awash with evil fuckers who, rather than trying to win you over with solid products and services, will expend their effort and money on bribes, advertising, patent warchests, takeovers and suchlike with the sole goal of manipulating, extorting, deceiving and straitjacketing you, not just to get the money you have now, but an ever increasing tithe, in perpetuity. Against this backdrop, a small organisation starts a modest initiative to help lift the veil from these practices to help you, and you... mock them for it.

  3. Not for sale to the Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...uhm... isn't FSF against this restriction on software??... well, maybe they don't care about it on hardware. Cuba will have to built its own printer :P

    1. Re:Not for sale to the Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 2

      I don't know if the project has any legal obligation to actually come out and say that; but those are just US export restrictions, not the project team's choice whether they want that to be there or not.

  4. Re:We're racing towards a free future now! by Nerdfest · · Score: 2

    It needs to start somewhere. If they start certifying desktops, laptops, and smartphones, I'll probably start wih those when I'm shopping.

  5. Desperate claim for relevancy by SuperBanana · · Score: 2

    This is nothing more than an attempt to cash in on the Makerbot closed-hardware closed-source fiasco.

    You know, all the people who were alllllllll about open hardware / open source? Until people started making clones of their sacred cow, the makerbot 3D printer?

    You know, the same people who then got absolutely ripshit when Makerbot went closed-source?

    It's a desperate attempt by the FSF to remain relevant when the world has largely moved on and ignored them...

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  6. For small values of free... by H0p313ss · · Score: 2

    From the website: Not for sale to the Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, or North Korea.

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    1. Re:For small values of free... by mfwitten · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Those are restrictions imposed by a violent third-party gang of thugs.

  7. Awesome! More products please by gQuigs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm looking at you System76 and ZaReason. One of FSF requirements in this program is a free BIOS, and we have a good one in CoreBoot (and it can make boot times faster). Worried about Secure/Restricted Boot? Get a laptop with a free bios, boot what you want.

  8. Re:So what? by Raenex · · Score: 2

    Or in other words:

    "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw

  9. More of this please by jonwil · · Score: 2

    I want to see a PC (that can run a full Linux distro) that has this FSF stamp.
    Or even just the bits that go into one (motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM etc)