-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lourens Veen Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 2:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Open-graphics] Discussions with Richard Stallman
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 21:14, Timothy Miller wrote: > On 1/9/07, Petter Urkedal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My understanding is that the purpose of OHF is to promote (1) FOSS > > friendly hardware, (2) free hardware designs. If (2) is the main > > goal, then I think "The Foundation for Free Hardware Designs" is a > > quite precise name (read: pedantically correct). Omitting > > closed-class words the acronym becomes FFHD. > > I really like that name, "The Foundation for Free Hardware Designs". 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. Lourens --------------- A better question really is not what RMS intended, or wants, but what OHF et all intends and wants. Jonathan Smith _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
