Andrew Gallagher on Nostr: Hardware companies should be forbidden from making proprietary software. If you sell ...
Hardware companies should be forbidden from making proprietary software. If you sell a physical object, and software is required to make that object usable, then it must be free software. Proprietary software is fine, but it should never touch bare metal.
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