On 1/7/07, Jack Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm still bothered by the ambiguity in the definition of "free" in
English. As I once mentioned, we might be better off with a word from
another language, that refers only to freedom.
You mean like "Libre"?
Regarding our project's name, I don't think we can change it, for
two reasons. One is the widespread recognition. The other is that we are
only able to develop open specification designs with open documentation at
present. Economics prevent us from publishing the full internals and
granting unrestricted modification rights, until up-front costs are
recouped. So I think it would be deceptive to bill ourselves as a free
hardware engineering project, until we're able to deliver on that claim.
I wonder if RMS has any objection to the term "Open Standard".
Perhaps, in a bit if a retcon, we could say that in "Open Graphics
Project," we are referring to the fact that we are creating an open
standard.
--
Timothy Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
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