On Tuesday 2. May 2017 17.23.16 Daniel Pocock wrote:
On 02/05/17 16:54, Paul Boddie wrote:
P.S. There are hardware pages on the FSFE Wiki that should be documenting these things.
Is this type of thing duplicated between FSFE, FSF, LibrePlanet and other wikis?
Probably. The page on the FSFE Wiki was maintained as an attempt to provide updated vendor information, though, whereas the FSF seem to maintain a hardware database and some kind of list of recommendations.
http://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Hardware/Hardware_Vendors
Maintaining vendor lists is fairly tiresome, though, because the Web sites tend to change and products get retired without a trace. Also, it isn't clear whether people get much use out of the above page. Since the usability has been somewhat impaired by the removal of the table-sorting (and "nicer on the eyes" editing) functionality since the wiki was migrated, it is now probably almost as much of a chore to investigate the listed vendors as it is to maintain the list.
In any case, it is possibly better to focus on vendors that offer products to a higher standard than merely not foisting Windows on people when they buy something, although vendors that do allow people to "build" their own computer are useful to know about.
Paul