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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)
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