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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
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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