On 2007-01-09, Lourens Veen wrote:
> However, does it do justice to the (rather large amount, including the 
> FSF) of people who want hardware with a documented interface, and who 
> don't care about the design of the internals of that hardware.
> 
> Perhaps the OHF should take this up with RMS directly. That way Timothy 
> has one less thing to worry about, and the OHF was supposed to 
> formalise these things anyway (with appropriate opportunities for 
> comment from the public and so on of course, I'm not suggesting that 
> this be any less democratic or that it shouldn't be based on broad 
> consensus).
> 
> I keep getting the feeling that this is not quite what RMS intended. 
> Which is why I want to ask him directly.

Yes, "The Foundation for Free Hardware Designs" may be too strong.  It's
maybe not possible to cover both purposes of OHF with a reasonably short
and precise name.  Describing only the FOSS friendly aspect, the best I
can think of is "The Foundation for Free Software Supported Hardware" [1]
(FFSSH).  It's rather verbose.

[1] Sorry if I'm plagiarizing a previous post in this thread.
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