Re: FSF continuously harms Free Hardware

[Richard Stallman]

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  > But in this FPGA design domain, the situation of free design is
  > still not as mature as free software. There are still lots of
  > non-free pieces, from vendor’s tool chain to the vendor’s non-free
  > [design] cores.

I wrote about this problem in
https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html hoping it would
encourage people to make progress in the field of freeing FPGA tools.
It is not easy -- it requires either designing (and mass-producing)
new FPGAa, or reverse engineering.

  > If FSF could push further (at least for the FPGA type of
  > hardware), I think that will make the tech more open/free from the
  > point view of full stack.

Beyond hoping to inspire volunteers, what can we do?  We don't have money
to spend.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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