Resending with the right address, please don't CC my Replicant address since this is not directly related to Replicant.
Le lundi 15 août 2016 à 21:45 +0300, Tiberiu-Cezar Tehnoetic a écrit : > On 15.08.2016 21:23, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > > > > > > Le lundi 15 août 2016 à 21:04 +0300, Tiberiu-Cezar Tehnoetic a écrit : > > > > > > > > > On 15.08.2016 20:09, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > > > > > > > > Thus, it would be more accurate to say that the device is free-software- > > > > friendly, which is vague enough to not be contradictory with the facts. > > > > > > I'm not really a big fan of the "free-software-friendly" term, exactly > > > because it's vague (laking a definition/criteria) and it doesn't really > > > tell users much regarding how respecting of software freedom that piece > > > of hardware is. That's why a wide range of hardware projects feel at > > > liberty to promote themselves as "free-software-friendly". > > > > Indeed, it's not very precise, but I don't think that's the goal here. I > > think > > vague statements are fine as long as they are clearly recognized as such. > > It depends on the targeted audience. If that is the general public, I'm > sure that the average user doesn't clearly recognize this term as vague. > > I believe the targeted audience of the Parabola blog is not only > educated users/free software activists/developers, but the general > public/average computer user. I mean that the precise wording "free-software-friendly" is intrinsically vague, so I doubt that anyone will understand it as an equivalent of "fully free software" or "freedom-respecting". So the question is whether it's good to use vague wording. I think that e.g. for the news title, it would be fine. Of course, a link to RYF and the single-board- computers page could shed some more lights for anyone interested. -- Paul Kocialkowski, developer of low-level free software for embedded devices Website: https://www.paulk.fr/ Coding blog: https://code.paulk.fr/ Git repositories: https://git.paulk.fr/ https://git.code.paulk.fr/
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