The goal of the EOMA (Embedded Open Modular Architecture) project is to introduce the idea of being ethically responsible about both the ecological and the financial resources required to design, manufacture, acquire and maintain our personal computing devices. The EOMA68 standard is a freely-accessible, royalty-free, unencumbered hardware standard formulated and tested over the last five years around the ultra-simple philosophy of "just plug it in: it will work".
With devices built following this standard, one can upgrade the CPU-card (consisting of CPU, RAM and some local storage) of a device while keeping the same housing (e.g. laptop). One can also use the CPU-card in different devices (e.g. unplug CPU-card from laptop, plug into desktop); or use a replaced/discarded CPU-card from a laptop for NAS storage or a micro-server. There are housings currently available for a laptop (can be 3D-printed in full, or in part to replace parts that break) and a micro-desktop; and there are plans for others like routers or tablets in the future.
There are multiple articles talking about this project and analyzing the hardware, for example from ThinkPenguin, CNXSoft or EngadgetNG. There is also a recent live-streamed video introducing the project.
(Score: 1) by lkcl on Tuesday August 02 2016, @07:36PM
Allwinners get certified by the FSF? Given how poisoned that well is, I don't see that as very likely.
the FSF does not pass judgement based on past actions: that would be foolish and severely counter-productive. they're interested in *right now*. we would not be applying for RYF Certification if the A20 was not entirely GPL compliant right down to the bedrock.
the way to solve the problem is to find a *financial* incentive. if we can say "YOU WILL LOSE MONEY IF YOU DON'T GIVE US THE SOURCE CODE", and dangle a deal for 1 million units in front of them, guess what happens? it actually turns out that they can be convinced even for the small amount of 50,000 units.
but if you start being a dick and saying "it's poisoned, fucking boycott the fuckers" guess how that's going to turn out, eh?
am really getting tired of hearing people telling me that they're boycotting allwinner when i'm working REALLY HARD to solve the problem.