"Jelle Hermsen" jelle@fsfe.org wrote (quoting adjusted):
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:40:12 +0100, discussion-bounces@fsfeurope.org wrote:
- judith@movingyouth.eu judith@movingyouth.eu [2012-02-08 14:18:55
+0100]:
What about about giving to the winner a laptop or desktop with current freedom tools that one use in his day-today life - a freedom box, Free Software social networks, browser and OS?
This kind of hardware is a bit difficult for FSFE as a prize. Most of the hardware relies on non-free drivers, and we would have to find hardware that does not depend on that. I do not want to give something to a winner, which forces him to use non-free software.
You could give away Lemote Yeeloong as a prize, they are running 100% Free Software, including the bios.
Quoting http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.html:
| 1) The world's first fully free software. All system source | files(BIOS, kernel, drivers etc.) are free software, no close | firmware needed.
Given that the BIOS is the only firmware that is explicitly mentioned to be free software, I assume "no close firmware needed" actually means "no non-free firmware except the pre-installed one".
If that's the case, the system might satisfy the "no non-free drivers" requirement, but it wouldn't really be "running 100% Free Software".
Of course the other firmware could be covered by the "etc.", but considering the specifications listed on the same URL that seems rather unlikely to me.
Fabian