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FreedomHEC (Freedom Hardware Engineer's Conference) Taipei was held June 10 and 11 in, unsurprisingly, Taipei, Taiwan. The event, sponsored by the governmental Institute for Information Industry, followed the huge Computex conference in the hope of attracting hardware developers who are interested in supporting Linux. Your editor, who had the honor of being invited to speak at FreedomHEC Taipei, would assert that the goal was achieved; over 200 developers showed up for two days of technical talk about the Linux kernel and the best ways to contribute to it.

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