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From: Richard Stallman<rms@g...>
Date: Fri May 14 11:20:50 CEST 2004
Subject: [oc] One issue about free hardware
A typical NIC card has one ASIC, doing all the logic processing,
from receiving the packet to transferring it over the PCI bus. It
has at least 100K transistors, do you feel like looking at them
one by one through a microscope to make sure they are all doing
what they suppose to do ?
My suggestion was to develop a program to automate this process.
It's all open source,
I decline to describe my work as "open source" or discuss it under
that heading, because "open source" is the slogan of a movement formed
to reject the views of the free software movement that I support. See
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html for more
explanation.
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