On Fri, Mar 4 23:19:32 UTC 2011, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 05:55:39PM -0500, James Vasile wrote: >>/On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:40:24 -0600, Anthony Papillion />>/<papillion at gmail.com <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss>> wrote: />>>/ Is hardware still totally up in the air? />>/ />>/Yes and no. The FreedomBox project, as proposed by Eben, has a />>/hardware target: small pluggable computers. />>/ />>/Yet still, the future is long and the world is wide. Ports can be />>/made. It's doubtful, but when the tech group gets down to brass tacks />>/some unforseen circumstance might make the plug an obviously bad />/>choice. And people on this list are of course free to extend the />>/vision to other hardware. So on some level there are lots of hardware />>/possibilities. /> >Sure Plug devices become obsolete long-term. Debian, however, do not. >Or at least I do not expect that - and assume noone else subscribed to >this Debian(!) list does either. > >Plug devices is a sensible choice not because they never become obsolete >but because they are usable with Debian *now* so we can hack on it >*now*. > >Please do! > > > >>/But no, the hardware is not up in the air. After we assemble a tech />>/committee, I predict this will all get focused to the target. For now, />>/though, I'm quite enjoying the multiplicity of ideas. /> >Feel free to wait for a committee to make decisions for you. > >I won't wait for that. I am working on FreedomBox *now* and take orders >from noone. > >When I've repeatedly referred to the preaching of Eben, it is not that I >treat his message as Law, but because I have found it sensible, and >because I assume that is what we have in common here on this list. > > > - Jonas
You're straw-manning.
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