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Raspberry Pi's liberation progress

This presentation is about Raspberry Pi and the progress on liberating the boot firmware for it. I will talk about why it's important to have free boot firmware on Raspberry Pi and look at its technical details. We will look at the boot firmware librerpi: its status, how it all started and we will also look at its demos.

Presented by: Johannes Åsgård

I'm Johannes (also known as dolphinana). I'm interested in music and computers. I sometimes compose music and receive positive reactions from it. I like to improvise on piano. As for computers, I like them and I tinker with them sometimes. I have made some attempts to program some games in the past. I'm passionate about free software and I want to contribute to its movement. I try to free the boot firmware on devices when ever possible.

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This talk was presented at LibrePlanet.

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LibrePlanet is the Free Software Foundation's annual conference. The FSF campaigns for free/libre software, meaning it respects users' freedom and community. We believe that users are entitled to this; all software should be free.

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We do not advocate "open source".

That term was coined to reject our views. It refers to similar practices, but usually presented solely as advantageous, without talking of right and wrong.

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Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 by announcing development of the free operating system, GNU. By 1992, GNU was nearly operational; one major essential component was lacking, the kernel.

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In 1992, Torvalds freed the kernel Linux, which filled the last gap in GNU. Since then, the combined GNU/Linux system has run in millions of computers. Nowadays you can buy a new computer with a totally free GNU/Linux system preinstalled.

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