Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free as in Freedom Access to Hardware

[Thomas Harding]

On 07/07/2012 19:44, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I am not opposed to capitalism as such, and I don't think that the
> surveillance imposed of ISPs is the result of their capitalistic
> nature.  It comes from the state, sometimes at the behest of the
> copyright companies, sometimes for other state purposes.
(please forgive my English, my name is, but in fact I'm French)

But laws/bills are in fact for a large part dict by company lobbies, 
especially regarding copyright laws.
(Mickey Mouse Act, ...)
Even in France, its likely happen parliament kept "compatibility 
amendment" against DRM.
And in fact it is not, especially with VOD.
> If a few users share a piece of hardware, I don't see any problem in
> that.  However, a large activity to make hardware for many users seems
> rather similar to having a company make the hardware.  It isn't
> necessarily bad, but bad things can happen.
I fully agree with that. A strong, good "constitution" is needed to try 
to avoid problems.

A point of failure is "who is in charge" of hardware/sysadmin.
In fact, even on Savannah you are in lack of admins, as it needs huge 
capabilities.

Another is : "there is a unused amount of money, what is the next 
investment?"
Worse: there is an hardware failure we can't afford with "federal 
reserve", who can afford?

The Debian ballot model could be a good start point on "decisions".

T.Harding