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Freedom-compatible hardware?

Freedom-compatible hardware?

Posted Oct 7, 2007 19:36 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Freedom-compatible hardware? by zooko
Parent article: Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience (The New York Times)

Ya I suppose your right with the point up there.

After I said that I noticed that another website said that per-core the ARM is probably the most expensive to license.

Now I don't believe that patents with hardware are in the same league of 'evilness' as software patents. Two different things, not equivelent.

I just got that impression about the arm being open because everybody and their mom has their own paticular variation. (which is just terrific platform for a very portable OS like Linux)

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