Free software gives us complete freedom over the software we use, and the definition of free software, along with the reasons and results are very practical and hard to dispute.

On the other hand, modern hardware gets more and more, restrictive, controlling, and freedom unfriendly. It's an issue affecting many spheres, from computers and cell phones, to cars, video cameras, and washing machines. We can hardly even say we own our devices.

During the talk, we'll take the philosophy of free software and try to apply it to hardware, and from there we'll try to define what libre hardware could be. This is not very cut and dry or obvious, because of the fundamental differences between software and hardware...