Free alternative to arduino
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Hi, Is there any free alternative to arduino?
Thanks.
PlatformIO - https://platformio.org/
PlatformIO has a MIT License, is not free software.
PlatformIO core is a CLI application that has an Apache 2.0 license. If the CLI version will suit your needs, I think you could use that.
Unfortunately, to use it with the Atom or Microsoft Visualstudio IDE's, you have to agree to their licenses, and both Atom and Visualstudio are MIT licensed.
Many other IDE's PlatformIO can work with on this page: https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/ide.html
I don't know them all, but you've got vim, emacs, Code::Blocks (GPL 3), QT Creator (GPL 3) and Apache Netbeans to choose from for free license'd IDE's.
If you are talking about https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Expat or about https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License (both known as "MIT license", which is confusing), you are talking about free software licenses.
What's wrong with Arduino?
Do you mean the software or the hardware?
As far as I know, everything is released under licenses that respect users' freedom.
That's right. Arduino is free software. I though it was open source. Thanks.
Almost all free software licenses on https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses are "open source" licenses on https://opensource.org/licenses/category and reciprocally. In other words, free software is almost always "open source software" and "open source software" is almost always free software.
The difference between the two terms is important, but it is a difference in the defended values. You can read https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html whose summary is:
The terms “free software” and “open source” stand for almost the same range of programs. However, they say deeply different things about those programs, based on different values. The free software movement campaigns for freedom for the users of computing; it is a movement for freedom and justice. By contrast, the open source idea values mainly practical advantage and does not campaign for principles. This is why we do not agree with open source, and do not use that term.
> The practices that don't uphold freedom and the words that don't talk about freedom go hand in hand, each promoting the other. To overcome this tendency, we need more, not less, talk about freedom.
From one of the links you pasted, though. I think I almost always have been asking you about freedom. For example,
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/online-privacy-and-atomic-bombings-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
It seems that you don't want to talk about freedom.
I also think that the current primary topic we should discuss is clear, I remember someone, and supporters of free software movement have responsibility for the fact why almost all people do not understand the difference between free software and open source software. It is not the open software supporters's responsibility nor anyone's responsibility but free software movement supportes's responsibility. It seems that that is buck-passing.
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