An interview with Alexandre Oliva, lead developer of Linux-libre at FSFLA
Where did he get that wooden laptop? That looks so awesome. And way more comfortable probably.
It came from https://madebrinquedos.lojavirtualnuvem.com.br/produtos/notebook-lousa/ but I hope you understand that it's not a real computer. The screen is a blackboard, to write on with chalk and the mouse is the eraser. It's very cute but not at all a real computer, hence "one that has never run any blob. Nada." There's also a toy cell phone with toy (wired) earphones: https://madebrinquedos.lojavirtualnuvem.com.br/produtos/celular-lousa/
But I recently read about wooden transistors via https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218380120 so a wooden computer might not need to remain fake, if one could assemble enough wooden transistors.
The article talks about "delignified" wood...
I think I prefer Alexandre's real wood laptop. You can always chalk things up.
Also, I noticed that he does not sound overly excited by Rust.
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Thanks. On free software, Alexandre Oliva is one of the people I most enjoy reading from. I wish more people would make such kind of interviews.
I was not aware of what is reported at https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/draft/suitable-online-banking. We live in a world where people are mistreated in so many ways that forcing one to run non-free software on one's computer probably looks like a minor evil to many people.
> forcing one to run non-free software on one's computer probably looks like a minor evil to many people.
If we do not start by confronting these "minor evils", how far can we expect to go against the greater ones?
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If we do not start by confronting these "minor evils", how far can we expect to go against the greater ones?
If we do not show any consideration for other issues the people we are talking to are suffering from, how do we expect them to consider seriously what we say on free software?
Alexandre Oliva is pointing out himself that his fight against banks did not raise any public attention as people did not feel concerned, which means no pressure on judges at all and not much progress on people understanding of the problem.
I am very hapy that Alexandre Oliva did what he did and reported it. I suspect that he actually may have liked joining a fight against banks that does not only include the free software aspect but just did not find any opportunity to do so.
Really an awesome Notebook, I am really animated to build one such like Pibook too or even to buy that toy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mrRFF72AZU