We lose the fight
My opinion is that until 2021 we will lose the fight against the Proprietary software .
IoT is coming also open source goes very good .
But free software is back to much back .
I beleve we dont have a plan we need something more new Technologis to get people to free Society .
If i am wrong please correct me .
Thank you.
You know about free software. You know about the pitfalls of
non free software. It makes you much better than most
people. You are able to tell people about free software.
All valuable assets. About hardware the situation
is arduous. Maybe it does not improve. That should
not stop you from getting more knowledge about
free software. It is important that as many people as
possible know about free software and its
advantages.
Do you know about?
https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
It is a new mainboard made such that
it can run on free software.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive-unleashed
A running riscv mainboard.
I am not convinced we will get riscv consumer
computers. But if riscv cpus can provide a
price advantages we likely will.
I like this comment. One thing though: the Raptor is expensive AF :/ an the sifive board is still a "project" with pre-orders, kinda risky
> Raptor is expensive AF
I have written this before. In terms of manufacturing costs an
atx powerpc raptor mainboard would not be much more
expensive than other mainboards. Raptor told me
if you buy 10000 atx powerpc raptor
mainboards the price will be 500usd per mainboard. What will
the price be if you order 1 million?
Rather it is about people not wanting the mainboard. In
order to test the demand I asked fsf to endorse a crowd
funding of an atx powerpc raptor mainboard. Fsf declined.
Not even fsf wants the mainboad.
> sifive board is still a "project" with pre-orders, kinda risky
If the seller tells you what you get it is not risky. It is
about the mainboard is not usable for common computing and
expensive.
I call university computer science departments and ask
them if I send them a short email about riscv will
they read it? No one has said no. In the email I ask
the departments to study and teach riscv. I ask them to
contribute to lowrisc. The sifive mainboard is
important because I can show a running riscv cpu and
a riscv mainboard the university can buy. What do
you do?
What is so special about 2021?
2021 is a very special year. It's exactly 6 years from 2015, the year that Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet. 2021 is also trinary for 43, and if you add those two digits together you get 7; add 2, 0, 2, and 1, however, and you get 5, so the mean of those two results is 6. and Finally, if you take the square root of 2021 and then round it to the nearest whole number, you get 45. Take those two digits, 4 + 5, and you get 9, but 45 divided by 9 is 5. So take the 5, then add the numbers that are the square roots of themselves: 0 and 1, and you get 6. Now put all three of those numbers together:
666
Uh-oh... 2021 is going to be a bad year indeed.
Lol. :-)
(However, if I am not mistaken, 2021 is trinary for 61, whose digits sum to 7 as well. Anyway, given that 2021 = 43x47, a product of two consecutive prime numbers, I wonder if the *real* second six would not come from the first such product, 2x3, which is 6.)
I dislike this behavior. I have no reason to believe he thinks it is
funny. Accepting your kind of humor should not be a requirement
to write on this forum. You can do it among yourselves.
I'm sorry if I offended your deep-seated beliefs about numerology by getting one of my calculations wrong. Please let it be known that it was unintentional. As Magic Banana pointed out, 2021 in trinary is 61, not 43 as I originally mistakenly wrote, but it's interesting that you still get the same result despite the mistake. Coincidence? I think not! This right here is further proof that the numerology is correct and we're in for very bad times in 2021. Numbers don't lie!
It is telling you graciously held off from saying if you think the
poster finds it funny. Difficult to admit a mistake?
Several times I have noticed people jump new members overly harshly.
I am sure jxself, the person I originally responded to, will fully appreciate my post revealing the truth about 2021 via numerology for what it is.
Why are you bringing up the topic of humor into this? This is a very serious matter, I will have you know. Numbers don't lie, as I said, and the numbers are very clear.
> I originally responded to
What is the coward's name? You do not want to stand by ridiculing
the poster?
jxself's name? That would be Jason, as far as I know. But why do you think he's a coward? He just asked what is special about 2021, and I answered. I'm sure he understands the significance of 2021 now that I have explained it.
Or... he could secretly be a part of the Illuminati, hiding the truth from the masses! Yes, you have a point... we must be diligent of such possibilities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAP4N3KyLmM
https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/iot-market-predicted-double-2021-reaching-520-billion/
I did not predict the date 100% (Just Reference).
But my Believes are that we will lose much people.
They will move to IoT devices at 2021.
I don't think I would say that IoT will kill the libre software community, though it will kill (and to a large extent already has killed) the freedom of many people. The biggest question, I suppose, is exactly how many.
Ultimately, I think this is a sub-problem, caused by the ubiquity of Android and iOS phones and the willingness of billions of people to install proprietary programs onto those phones for a little added convenience. I think back to a toy my younger brother used to have when he was a toddler; you had to hook it up to a Windows computer to set it up. Is that any different? Or what about when, for example, you buy a gaming controller with a feature advertised that's only accessible through a proprietary Windows driver? Or what about when you bought a music player (*cough* iPod *cough*) that you couldn't load music onto, unless you installed a proprietary program onto either a Windows system or a Mac OS X system?
> jxself's name? That would be Jason, as far as I know
You are wriggling. I know who the coward is.
> My opinion is that until 2021...
I know at whose expense you made your post.
Yes, it's at the expense of the Illuminati and Satan. Their evil plan has been uncovered!
To Zotis, I think we urgely need more and more modern machines and mobiles, just like NASes, laptops, AI systems, IoT systems, Cloud systems, Big Data systems etc, that we all lack of all the hardware advantage against nonfree software. And onpon5 is right 2021 will be the most cursed year but Satan and Illuminati will be punished and perm sealed next year.
The few worst companies like g00g1e, m$, a££1e, a$0be are all being suicided now, but the ‘‘open source’’ companies and hardware vendors are more difficult to defeat than g00g1e, m$, a££1e, a$0be very much.