>     True. This description of the project contains already a lot of
> the ideas we are shaking on the list.

>     There are still concerns about the fact that some of the
> software we use are big hairballs and enforce technical lock-ins.
> Eg. the Linux kernel and the X-Window system. There's also the issue
> of non-free binary blobs, like proprietary firmwares and drivers. We
> must accept some of these for the sake of having a working OS.

>     BUT, everywhere there is choice, the solution(s) in the spirit
> of KISS and UNIX shall be preferred and the others rejected. Only
> when we haven't the choice will we install the non-KISS/non-UNIX.

>     Do you think it could be a valid criteria, "Software violating
> GPL, KISS or DOTADIW is accepted only if there is no possible
> replacement" ?