Re: Development Speed

[Óscar Fuentes]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>
>> AFAIK there are multiple machines that offer more computing power (on
>> terms of CPU, RAM, storage, etc) than the typical medium-range PC from
>> 15 years ago. AFAIK a humble Raspberry Pi fits that description and it
>> has a fraction of the propietary firmware most of those old PCs have.
>
> Raspberry Pis cannot run usably with 100% free firmware, while the old
> PCs RMS was referring to can.

Are you implying that it is possible to turn regular PCs from before IME
into systems with 100% free firmware?

There are multiple components on a typical system that use their own
firmware, many of them are not writable.