From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Harri Haataja Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:10:20 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Purism laptops Topicbox-Message-UUID: aa97a310-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 12 November 2016 at 21:22, James A. Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 8:19 AM, > Andr=C3=A9s Dom=C3=ADnguez 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. --=20 I appear to be temporarily using gmail's horrible interface. I apologise for any failure in my part in trying to make it do the right thing with post formatting.