From: Harri Haataja <realblades@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Purism laptops
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:10:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD8V-zA3O4-5jjyi6kAH42X8mS_W9EnBaR6nHSG7X9dw3YhQXA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPd04b4DAxWi56y8U3nxpT5eTN2muey_wtCkn5pwzi6sLPpByQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 12 November 2016 at 21:22, James A. Robinson <jimr@highwire.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 8:19 AM,
> Andrés Domínguez <andresdju@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do they really make open hardware? In what aspect
>> is their hardware more open than any other laptop?
>
> A summary would bet hat typically the hardware
> drivers that are run on a computer come in two possible
> forms, either closed source or open source.
https://puri.sm/learn/blobs/ Indeed, blobs seems to be one point.
Another thing seems to be that they advertise that these laptops have
no hidden features or remote control. How they could claim to
guarantee this and how a customer could possibly believe them, I don't
know.
Having hardware kill switches is also nice, but guarantees that they
truly stop any access to camera, mic, or whatnot might be hard to
make.
Trust or no trust, they might be offering some desirable hardware there.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-12 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-11 18:51 James A. Robinson
2016-11-11 21:42 ` Charles Forsyth
2016-11-11 23:39 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2016-11-12 0:07 ` James A. Robinson
2016-11-12 16:19 ` Andrés Domínguez
2016-11-12 19:22 ` James A. Robinson
2016-11-12 21:10 ` Harri Haataja [this message]
2016-11-12 21:28 ` James A. Robinson
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