[Freedombox-discuss] What dreams are made of...
Jonas Smedegaard
dr at jones.dk
Sat Feb 19 10:30:58 UTC 2011
Hi fellow Freedom fighters,
I fear my posts here discourages more than they help.
One thing I have recently realized is that even though I may sound clear
in mind in my way of arguing, often I refine my points through many
iterations and only much later get to my _real_ point - what was
fluffily rumbling inside my head trying to get out.
- # -
No, I don't think that FreedomBox is simply "Debian in a box".
We all share a dream, (if not created then boosted) by the preaching of
Eben Moglen.
Dreams are crucial. Dreaming is crucial. Ongoing!
So let me adjust (yet again) my own preaching:
FreedomBox consists of 4(!) equally important parts:
FreedomBox = software + hardware + design + dreams
(imagine the word "Freedom", capital "F", in front of all those parts -
that just wouldn't fit on a single geeky 72 character text line ;-) )
* Freedom software is found in Debian
Must be in Debian, not because Debian is better than others, but
because software not only need to exist but also be production
ready and must be integrated with hundreds or thousands of other
parts and all parts as a whole must be production ready as well.
* Freedom hardware is ugly cheap old plug hardware
Choose the fanciest of the boxes and its cost or reliability or
market share becomes a problem. Choose the weakest most boring
of the boxes and you will remember (from constantly yourself
hitting the roof of the extremely limited resources) to
prominently tighten the software setup - and everyone else who
then buy that fancier box anyway has additional headroom which
is always good.
* Freedom design
No comment here (yet).
* Freedom dreams
Crucial that we all dream - i.e. have opinions and ideas for
additional future improvements over the "crap" that is currently
available to us in plain stable Debian. Keep dreaming - keep
developing. But please don't let that be all you do, and please
don't daydream too much: When meeting together here at the list,
on IRC and in real life, please let us work *ONLY* on the actual
development of FreedomBox, not Debian packaging or code needing
packaging.
Have a very nice day,
- Jonas
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