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		npo9 on Oct 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store We need free hardware before we can build free software. No one produces an LTE modem with open source firmware.

antoinevg on Oct 3, 2019 [–]

You absolutely do not need free hardware to build free software.

It was decades before the PC's we used to build FreeBSD, GNU, Linux etc. had even a free software BIOS available.

Historically, free hardware availability has followed in the wake of free software.

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