On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:16:30PM -0600, Patrick McNamara wrote:
> Jack Carroll wrote:
> >
> > Graphics Liberation Project
> >
>
> I very much like the concept of "liberation". In this case liberation
> from the conditions and burdens of getting access from current hardware
> documentation. Liberation from the "old way of doing things",
> liberation of the implementation details, etc. However in the current
> geopolitical context, "liberation" can also have some very touchy
> associations. Hence my earlier suggestion of Hardware Libéré.
Having read the objections, I tend to agree. I was brainstorming at
the time, and not really thinking things through.
I would prefer something that reads correctly in the plain Roman
alphabet without accent marks, however. That way it wouldn't depend on
browsers and mail clients that can correctly identify and render a character
encoding. "Libre" is getting to be pretty well known in the context of FOSS.
One possible English expression might be, in a couple of variants:
Graphics Free Standards Project
Free-Standards Graphics Project
That uses the word "free", without any ambiguity as to what it
means.
>
> Anyway, I need stop and give concerted thought to the whole discussion
> before I say too much more. I am still trying to formulate arguments
> and positions and don't want to end up contradicting myself two emails
> later on something I say.
Well, we're all searching for the right idea. I don't see anything
wrong with saying something at this stage and then contradicting it later.
I just did.
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