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1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 09:04:25 UTC Bob Mottram
   The ideal Free Software laptop has in my opinion not yet been invented. It would:
   
   

   • have no boot blobs
   • Have corresponding board schematics usable in kicad or similar
   • Use Free Software compatible wifi
   • Be shipped with libre distros
   • Have no proprietary graphics acceleration
   • Be affordable to the precariat
   • Be practical as a laptop (unlike the Novena)
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   • Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 09:15:08 UTC Bob Mottram

     • Maiyannah Bishop
     @maiyannah yes. Although there are exceptions most of the Free Software people I've met or communicated with in the last few years are very unlikely to be able to afford a Novena Heirloom or a Talos workstation.
   • Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 09:37:24 UTC Bob Mottram

     • Masoud Abkenar
     • Maiyannah Bishop
     @maiyannah @masoud there are existing systems which are some of the way but not all the way
   • Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 09:43:40 UTC Bob Mottram

     • Masoud Abkenar
     • Maiyannah Bishop
     @masoud @maiyannah they do, but it's a last resort solution and isn't really sustainable. To have a sustainable way forward the board design needs to be published so that it is manufacturable and we don't have to guess what firmware it might contain by reverse engineering.