[Dev] [libreplanet-discuss] Misleading information in EOMA68 news

Christopher Waid chris at thinkpenguin.com
Fri Aug 26 03:14:46 GMT 2016


On 2016-08-25 10:19 PM, Tiberiu-Cezar Tehnoetic wrote:
> On 26.08.2016 04:03, André Silva wrote:
>> Hi guys, i let you know that our url about EOMA68 news has been 
>> changed
>> [0] to fix misleading information there too.
>> 
>> [0]:https://www.parabola.nu/news/new-ryf-seeking-hardware-crowdfunding-project-with-parabola-pre-installed/
> 
> That's a good thing. Oh, but you missed something. At the bottom of the
> news I read:
> 
> "EOMA68 - libre software, libre hardware, and eco-friendly too!"
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2016-06/msg00208.html
> 
> IMO, you shouldn't link to that discussion which right from the subject
> starts with the "libre hardware" lie.

It's NOT a lie. It's a crowding funding campaign explaining what we are 
doing. It hasn't been released yet. It's not technically incorrect to 
call it libre just because it hasn't been released yet.





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