[Freedombox-discuss] What dreams are made of...

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi fellow Freedom fighters,

I fear my posts here discourages more than they help.

One thing I have recently realized is that even though I may sound clear 
in mind in my way of arguing, often I refine my points through many 
iterations and only much later get to my _real_ point - what was 
fluffily rumbling inside my head trying to get out.

    - # -

No, I don't think that FreedomBox is simply "Debian in a box".

We all share a dream, (if not created then boosted) by the preaching of 
Eben Moglen.

Dreams are crucial.  Dreaming is crucial.  Ongoing!

So let me adjust (yet again) my own preaching:

FreedomBox consists of 4(!) equally important parts:

   FreedomBox = software + hardware + design + dreams

(imagine the word "Freedom", capital "F", in front of all those parts - 
that just wouldn't fit on a single geeky 72 character text line ;-) )


   * Freedom software is found in Debian
     Must be in Debian, not because Debian is better than others, but 
     because software not only need to exist but also be production 
     ready and must be integrated with hundreds or thousands of other 
     parts and all parts as a whole must be production ready as well.
   * Freedom hardware is ugly cheap old plug hardware
     Choose the fanciest of the boxes and its cost or reliability or 
     market share becomes a problem.  Choose the weakest most boring
     of the boxes and you will remember (from constantly yourself
     hitting the roof of the extremely limited resources) to 
     prominently tighten the software setup - and everyone else who
     then buy that fancier box anyway has additional headroom which 
     is always good.
   * Freedom design
     No comment here (yet).
   * Freedom dreams
     Crucial that we all dream - i.e. have opinions and ideas for 
     additional future improvements over the "crap" that is currently
     available to us in plain stable Debian.  Keep dreaming - keep
     developing.  But please don't let that be all you do, and please
     don't daydream too much: When meeting together here at the list,
     on IRC and in real life, please let us work *ONLY* on the actual
     development of FreedomBox, not Debian packaging or code needing
     packaging.


Have a very nice day,

  - Jonas

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