Most of us on this list are happy to see software and hardware that

is open source.
Might i most respectfully suggest that this is not the best venue to

promote this. We agree on a lot of points. 
Dr Stallman i now see the dogged determination that has made you effective,

however i have to note that this is not the best venue to make this fight. I am

sure there are more companies out there you could help push to free their hardware

or software.
--- Marina Brown

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    I'm curious how you can recomend an OS, like gNewSense that only runs on

    non-free hardware, that

    has required non-free software to be used in it's creation?
How do you do these things?  Perhaps I do them the same way.
The term "non-free hardware" is misleading, because the issues that

divide free software from non-free software do not apply to hardware.

There are no copiers for hardware and it has no source code.
As for Intels use of non-ree software, I am sorry for them, and I hope

that someday they will be able to move to free software.