In a post to the info-gnu list, Free Software Foundation founder
Richard Stallman calls for volunteers to set up a web page that
would rate how friendly hardware manufacturers are to free
software.
Below is Stallman‘s complete
post.
From rms@gnu.org Tue Nov 3 17:21:50 1998 Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 12:50:05 -0500 From: Richard Stallman To: info-gnu@gnu.org Subject: Rating hardware manufacturers Resent-Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 17:24:28 -0500 Resent-From: info-gnu-request@gnu.org The GNU project is looking for volunteers to put together and afterward update web page that would rate various hardware manufacturers about how friendly they are to free software. We have complete free operating systems for many of today's computers; whether we have them for tomorrow's computers depends on whether we can get the hardware specs for them. This page will help people choose the hardware that free software supports; it will also help the community reward the hardware developers that do cooperate with us, and thus encourage others to begin. The aim is to be as complete as possible--to list as many manufacturers and products as possible, and state (1) whether the manufacturer has published the specs, and (2) whether free drivers exist for the hardware. If you would like to work on this project, and you have the broad familiarity with available hardware and the drivers to support it, and you're willing to put substantial effort into the job, please send me email.