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Why we feel it is a liberation experience to take part in the Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook project

This talk is titled "Why we feel it is a liberation experience to take part to the Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook project," and was presented at LibrePlanet 2022 by Roberto Innocenti.

Roberto is among the founders of the project Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook.

This talk will illustrate the reasons and motivations that made Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook undertake the challenge of designing a PowerPC based notebook from scratch -- one that is fully compliant with the Open Hardware principles and based on GNU/Linux -- and what they are learning from it.

Slides: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/why-we-feel-it-is-a-liberation-experience-to-take-part-in-the-open-hardware-powerpc-notebook-project-slides/

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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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