On 10/15/16, FaTony fatony@fatony.net wrote:
What kind of games are you planning to run?
Because this is very libre focused project
it's an *ethically* focussed project of which it so happens, by way of the four freedoms being designed around the extremely rare and hard-to-understand *joint* combination of software development *and* ethical considerations, that libre software is a huge part *of* the project but it is not *the* focus of the project.
now, if people want to *ignore* those ethical considerations they are entirely free to do so and to experience the consequences of doing so (which, if they piss on anything that is part of this project, interfering with it or bringing it into disrepute in any way, then to say that those consequences would be bad for them would be a massive understatement).
so I assume emulators of proprietary hardware and proprietary games for that hardware out of the question.
they're not [out of the question]. they will not be able to receive an RYF Certificate, that's for sure, but that's nothing to do with EOMA68.
if you recall a couple weeks ago i began writing up the specification to incorporate the circumstances under which proprietary software is acceptable, as well as outlining the [rather large] burden of responsibility that proprietary software vendors will be taking on as a result.
if that proprietary software is installable by the end-user (over the internet) *after* the product ships, that burden is greatly reduced. if there isn't *any* choice *other* than proprietary software however, such that that proprietary software might as well already be on the device, i might however get a bit unhappy about that.
it's still all forming, basically, but the fundamental underlying rule is: ethical considerations FIRST. stop causing people pain and distress just because they're buying technology devices.
l.