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On 2 March 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to Open hardware. The result of the discussion was not moved.

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IBM Cell Processor

What about the new promising IBM Cell Processor?

I read at many places, it is supposed to be "open source hardware":

Is it only the interface specification to the hardware, which is open?
Or is the whole hardware design (including verilog source code etc.) public available?
Or is even the hardware design licensed under a licence which fulfills the 4 freedoms of software/OS Definition?

If anybody knows sth. about it => Please add it here!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.95.147.244 (talk • contribs)

Removing metion to FSF's RYF

RYF certifications have nothing to do with free or open hardware. According to https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Free_Software_Foundation&oldid=863791402#Hardware_endorsements_(RYF) (current revision at time of posting):

   "To be granted certification, a product must use 100% Free Software, allow user installation of modified software, be free of back doors and conform with several other requirements."

The FSF's "Respects Your Freedom hardware certification requirements" (https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria) only requires that the hardware is shipped and usable with only 100% free software. In fact, the requirements only mention the word 'hardware' in the title and preamble.

TabbyEVO

the link for TabbyEVO in, Forms of open-source hardware > Mechatronics redirects to the archived old site in the wayback machine. I think they changed the website and it now is https://www.openmotors.co/product/tabbyevo/. I don't know how to convey the closure of old website and the shift to new one in the article, maybe it should be done in TabbyEVO's own wiki article page?

Requested move 2 March 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 21:38, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Open-source hardware → Open hardware – Open hardware is a more established and descriptive term, although some use the term 'Open-source hardware'. See: https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-hardware & https://ohwr.org+Avoinlähde (talk) 20:47, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 21:43, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. The current title is the more common name. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:56, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Source of the argument? E.g. Opensource.com website uses the term 'Open hardware'. --Avoinlähde (talk) 21:32, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Many websites and articles use term 'Open hardware' and in addition, when you google 'Open hardware' you get 4 670 000 000 search results, while 'Open-source hardware' gets 'only' 3 290 000 000 search results. --Avoinlähde (talk) 23:30, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Avoinlähde! Generally nominators of requested moves don't need to boldface support the move, as it's assumumed. Cheers, 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 22:15, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: not shown to be the common name and I highly doubt it is. --Spekkios (talk) 01:22, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Hitachi SH2

Many of Hitachi's SuperH/SH2 patents are now open in this project: [1], but I'm not sure it belongs in the article. Family Guy Guy (talk) 14:44, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]