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Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project known by many in the open source worlds as rms, is not the sort of person you'd expect to endorse a product. But Stallman and the FSF have formed a partnership of sorts with Crowd Supply, a crowdfunding company that has been largely focused on open source hardware and software projects.
Crowd Supply is best known for launching the Librem laptop (a privacy-focused computer built by Purism) and the Novena (an open-hardware "laptop" designed by Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Sean "xobs" Cross). Based in Portland, Oregon, the company was founded by Joshua Lifton, a Ph D alumnus of MIT Media Lab and the former head of engineering at Puppet Labs. In addition to providing product designers with a crowdfunding platform, Crowd Supply also provides them with long-term sales, marketing, and fulfillment services.
The partnership with FSF was a natural fit, Lifton said in a statement on the arrangement. "The lines between hardware and software are blurring," Lifton explained. "It only makes sense to consider them jointly rather than separately."
Is this RMS's version of selling-out?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:08PM
Yeah, I remember when I heard the first time about "wheel" without knowing what it was, except that it was somehow related to permissions. Sitting on a Linux system, of course my first instinct was to try man wheel which indeed turned up a man page. But instead of explaining what wheel is, it contained a rant about how evil it is. I was no wiser after reading it.
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