There is nothing like people who use very closed source hardware for their open source high level code shitting on projects who make their hardware and make difficult decisions.
If you want to claim your high ground that's fine, but do the hardware too. That includes the silicone.
Talk is cheap.
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FOSS larps drive me nuts.
It's really only the hardware firmware that necessarily needs to be open (from a FOSS perspective). There's no reason I can think of that FOSS software must run on non-proprietary hardware to be aligned with the FOSS ethos. It's the firmware that's the issue. Alas, open hardware is being worked on in various ways and I think we all will benefit. It's okay that we are all doing what we need to in the interim. I don't see the value in shitting on each other anymore. I've done it. Most have. It just isn't worth it if we are all trying to go in the same general direction.
Love silicone
I was never really sure why firmware is always so guarded, other than maybe out of embarrassment? (hardware people tend to write shitty software)
It's not an OSI approved license. They wan to dictate what you do with their code.
If one makes money selling hardware, why would they care if the firmware that only runs on that hardware is open? Is it because it would make the hardware itself easy to copy?
There is a comercial restriction, so leeches can't just keep taking without contributing. It's extremely permissive for users.
That's been the other way round in my view. NVK has been hating SeedSigner over and over again.
Sounds like what Tropic Square is doing?
* cubic boron arsenide
