[mistrial9]

think for a minute - the energy inputs, the materials inputs, the transportation inputs, the intellectual work inputs, the software architecture advances inputs..

asking for "free" in the face of these factual inputs, appears to echo the most lazy and gluttonous of human instincts.. really unproductive, spoken from a person who has tried to confront the excesses of American markets e.g. software patents, rent-seeking models, etc..

also spoken from a person who defends regularly "free as in Freedom, not free as in BEER" .. this is a call for free beer in the worst form.. really unproductive

[Pet_Ant]

I think the GP meant as completely free as in speech free. A computer made of 100% open source components, all chips with Verilog, all masks etc for the PCB... and I think I that is a long way off.