Am 2008-10-28 10:00:31, schrieb Lennart Sorensen: > Debian's policy is not insane. It is consistent. Any hardware maker > that wants their hardware to work with free software could use an > eeprom to store the firmware within the device, so that there is nothing > non-free that has to be distributed. That is what Debian is concerned > with. If the firmware is embedded in the device, then it has nothing to > do with Debian anymore, and it is entirely up to the user whether they > care about how the hardware they buy is made. Those that do care can > simply avoid that type of hardware (or at least try to).
Curently I am building a hardware where the parts cost arround 40US$ per
device (@10.000) and using the same microcontroller with a "big" FLASH
memory would mke this Hardware arround 5 US$ in final production more
expensive.
So for the end-users arreound 10 US$ or 8 Euro
Are you willing to pay arround 15-18% more for such hardware?
Also you shouls know, that code generated by SDCC is 3 times bigger then
the one build by my IDE provided by the Microcontroller manufacturer.
Which mean, I must switch from a 32 kByte model to a 128 kByte one.
Or by attaching an external NVRAM of 128 kByte like the Atmel AT29BV010A
and I think, you can check the price for yourself...
> If they use flash chips, then it doesn't affect Debian, because the
> flash chip already contains what is needed for the device to work.
> Debian doesn't have to have anything to do with updating them, and hence
> there is no distribution of non-free to worry about.
Again: ARE you realy willing to pay at least
10US$ or 8€ more for the hardware?
I mean, the I am trying currently servera hardware models since I need
highly optimized one (for solar-Energie Systems) and there is nothing in
production yet. I am 100% free what to do and how I do it...
Since all of my software must run under GNU/Linux and is licensed under
GNU GPL version 3 I like to see, that my hardware/Software fit the DFSG
which mean, must run with "main".
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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