On 7/11/06, Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 10 July 2006 19:56, Timothy Miller wrote:
>
> The FSF's job is political activism. Our Foundation's job is to
> facilitate the development of open architecture hardware. That is,
> theirs is to debate, and ours is to build stuff. I love philosophy
> as much as anything, but we need to be clear about our intentions,
> and that means being clear in our name. If the name means something
> (what the hell does "Traversal Technology" mean?), make sure that it
> means what you want it to mean and attracts the right sort of
> attention.
In other words, we're more about open source than about
free-as-in-freedom. So something like Foundation for the Promotion of
Freedom-Friendly Hardware would be out I guess. I reckon that the term
Freedom-Friendly would probably also rule out any DRM support.
We're neither specifically about either FS or OS. We're about
building hardware suitable to either. Things get murky when when we
get into issues of the RTL, but when it comes to actual software, I'm
personally all about the freedom aspects, but I want this hardware to
be usable with BSD or Windows or MacOS or AIX or whatever you like...
What I'm saying is the JOB of Traversal should NOT be to engage in
ideological debate. Other people can debate, and we'll sell them
stuff that works for them.
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