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+In a word: "control" (for users)
+
+### Proposed
+
+No NDAs for anybody: vendors, employees, collaborators, etc
+
+Don't ship with binary blobs
+- we don't host them or ship them
+- but don't go out of the way to disallow users to install what they want
+
+Hackability
+- Accessible and documented internal interfaces
+- Good documentation
+
+No technical secrets
+- Published development repositories
+
+Others should be able to recreate the hardware
+- Use only easily source-able, openly documented components and chips with 
+  minimal export restrictions
+- Full hardware design/manufacturing files in various formats
+
+Understand and publish labor practices of anything we manufacture/sell
+- visits, photos, contact information
+
+
+### Unsure
+
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+Avoid rent-seeking behavior in any business model
+- don't abuse "control" or trusted position
+
+Complete transparency of finances, "partnerships"
+
+Absolutely no licensing or patent issues
+- USB ids
+- WiFi patent worries
+- hire lots of lawyers to go everything with a fine tooth comb?
+- best effort sufficient?
+
+### Dreams
+
+"I want to build an internet that's not dependant on the whims of any one group
+at all"
+
+Building better/new things as well as fixing problems/bugs/holes 
+(not just-a-libre-XYZ, also shiny and new)
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