[libre-riscv-dev] xdc2020

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, 09:11 <whygee at f-cpu.org> wrote:

> On 2020-07-04 10:13, Jean-Paul Chaput wrote:
> > On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 14:56 -0700, Jacob Lifshay wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 14:37 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> >> <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> > libre :)  it's not called open-soc
> >>
> >> FOSS for hardware, maybe FOSH?
> >
> >   Just a small comment in passing, from our ASIC end point of view,
> >   we try to promote the term "Free Silicon". This covers mostly the
> >   tools, maybe not what you do with them, and for an X conference...
> >
> >   Best regards,
>
> I can hear the voice of Richard Stallman ranting and fuming from here
> :-D
>
> "Free silicon" is not accurate : the silicon itself is not free, it's
> hardware.
>

we should strive towards the silicon being free as in freedom, so free
silicon is accurate, just easily confused with free as in $0. :)

Jacob