[Freedombox-discuss] How should we translate 'box'?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 05:36:33PM +0300, Osama Khalid wrote:
>We started advocating the FreedomBox in Arabic. We translated the name 
>to 'Freedom Container' but some have mentioned that it could mean 
>'Freedom Computer' according to this definition:
>
>http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/box#computing
>
>On identi.ca, there wasn't an overwhelming agreement in the this
>thread:
>
>http://identi.ca/conversation/64004029
>
>Personally, I find the name 'container' better for normal people who 
>may not get the idea that this plug server is an actual computer as 
>they know it since it will do many uncommon tasks in PCs. It also can 
>be interpreted as communication freedom sent in a prepackaged box, once 
>it's opened, it will enable people to gain real-life freedom.


I agree with you that it is not "Freedom by computation" but "Freedom 
boxed" - i.e. framed by a physical "container" (not virtualized as cloud 
computing often is).


  - Jonas

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