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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 we don't
go out of our way to disallow users from installing them if they desire.

**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)