On Wednesday 10 January 2007 16:58, Timothy Miller wrote: > > I'm not sure that anyone likes the name "Free Hardware Foundation" or > any of those things. In fact, the only place we've all agreed that > "Free" and "Hardware" go together is when the word "Design" is > included.
Right. There is just too much potential for interpretation of Free Hardware as in free beer. > I'm thinking we need to do something more clever than just shove the > word "Free" into the name. Something more like "Hardware Liberation > Society." Perhaps we need to be more specific by what we mean by > "Hardware" too, such as "Computer Hardware Liberation Society." (If > you try hard enough, you can actually pronounce "CHLS." :) > > For the OGP, I think "Graphics Liberation Project" (or whatever it > was exactly) is at the top of my list right now. > > Using the word "Liberation," we can define it how we need to. We're > liberating the hardware. Well, I'm not sure. My first thought if someone were to tell me that they were liberating hardware would be something like the start of the Blender3D project, or that RPG game that people were recently trying to buy. That is, trying to pay the owner of existing hardware to open up the spec and/or design. Which is not what we're trying to do. Also, Open points towards an open development process, where everyone can learn and join, while "Liberation" doesn't. That is an important aspect of the project however. I'm not convinced that there are significant enough problems with "Open Graphics Project", or a good enough alternative, to consider a switch. Lourens
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