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diff --git a/article/free-hardware.html b/article/free-hardware.html index 801ab0b..b863eac 100644 --- a/article/free-hardware.html +++ b/article/free-hardware.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <h1>Free Hardware</h1> <p>Article ID: 8</p> <p>This article is unfinished, combined from all over the place, and is a big mess. Read if you want, I guess.</p> - <p><strong>In ``free software'' and ``free hardware'', the ``free'' in ``free computing'' does not refer to price; it refers to freedom and liberty of users.</strong></p> + <p><strong>In “free software” and “free hardware”, the “free” in “free computing” does not refer to price; it refers to freedom and liberty of users.</strong></p> <p>This section is mainly for posts on <em>hardware hardware designs</em>. Without which, <em>no computer user is free</em>.</p> <blockquote> <p>In fact, access to schematics, boardviews, datasheets and any other documentation is <em>critical</em> to software freedom.</p> @@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ Intel and Microsoft. An oligopoly is a market structure in which a market or industry is dominated by a small number of large sellers or producers. People often confuse this with monopolies, for which the latter Francis Wayland -defines as ``an exclusive right granted to a [hu]man or a monopoly of -[hu]man, to empoly their labor or capital in some particular manner'', +defines as “an exclusive right granted to a [hu]man or a monopoly of +[hu]man, to empoly their labor or capital in some particular manner”, which cannot exist in a free market (i.e. free of government regulations). The technology industry in most countries is an oligopoly, not a monopoly. @@ -91,12 +91,12 @@ for daily life, exacebating the harms of a relevant oligopoly market. There is yet another practical harm of a oligopoly technology market: about the rights of users. When CPUs are produced by almost solely Intel, AMD, and a few others, they are now free to add their backdoors -and ``management engines'' into the CPUs that we users use daily, and +and “management engines” into the CPUs that we users use daily, and their seek for profit pushes them to do so. We now have to work with spyware in our computer hardware, and we can't do anything about it, because the oligopoly nature of the market doesn't allow us common people to monitor, produce, develop, or otherwise deal with our own -technology except for the ``expected usages'' that the oligopoly +technology except for the “expected usages” that the oligopoly superimposes on us. One way out is to decentralize the development and production of CPUs |