Jack Carroll wrote: > 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. > >
I still try not to contradict myself to often, at least not publically... :) Libre works just fine and translates literally to "free". I liked Libéré because it could convey the liberation of how hardware was conceived and designed from the old closed way to the new open/free way without the immediate unsavory undertones that "liberation" carries these days. However, I can also see the argument for not using accent characters as I keep cutting and pasting Libéré. Even though the acute accent e (é) is in the standard 8 bit ASCII character set as character dec 130, it is a pain to type. Patrick M _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
