On Thursday 11 January 2007 03:55, Jack Carroll wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:16:30PM -0600, Patrick McNamara wrote: > > Jack Carroll wrote: > > > Graphics Liberation Project > > > > I very much like the concept of "liberation". In this case > > liberation from the conditions and burdens of getting access from > > current hardware documentation. Liberation from the "old way of > > doing things", liberation of the implementation details, etc. > > However in the current geopolitical context, "liberation" can also > > have some very touchy associations. Hence my earlier suggestion of > > Hardware Libéré. > > Having read the objections, I tend to agree. I was brainstorming at > the time, and not really thinking things through. > I would prefer something that reads correctly in the plain Roman > alphabet without accent marks, however. That way it wouldn't depend > on browsers and mail clients that can correctly identify and render a > character encoding. "Libre" is getting to be pretty well known in > the context of FOSS. One possible English expression might be, in a > couple of variants: > > Graphics Free Standards Project > Free-Standards Graphics Project > > That uses the word "free", without any ambiguity as to what it > means.
But what is a "Free Standard"? I've heard of open standards, but free standards? The first one sounds like a project to create a standard, while the second I can make heads nor tails of. I don't think that we need to have the word "Free" in the name of the project. I think "Open" is fine, and that "Free" is (or should be) too narrow a concept to convey everything that the project entails. "The Open Graphics Project aims to create a Freely-Usable graphics card that is, to the extent that this is currently economically viable, Free Design Hardware. Our vision is to have Free Software-compatible graphics cards in every computer on the planet. Everyone is welcome to join the Open Graphics Project. So, if you like to develop, test and/or document hardware and/or software, join the mailinglist today and get started!" I don't see what's wrong with that. Lourens
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