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[[Consumerium]] is a not-for-profit project to focus that power.  We are collaborating under the [[GFDL]] [[licences|license]], to design a [[healthy buying infrastructure]].  We are identifying [[hardware requirements]] for storage, transport and display of varying levels of [[features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s at the [[point of purchase]].  We hope to be part of an evolving [[healthy signal infrastructure]] that all [[essential projects]] can participate in.
[[Consumerium]] is a not-for-profit project to focus that power.  We are collaborating under the [[GFDL]] [[licences|license]], to design a [[healthy buying infrastructure]].  We are identifying [[hardware requirements]] for storage, transport and display of varying levels of [[features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s at the [[point of purchase]].  We hope to be part of an evolving [[healthy signal infrastructure]] that all [[essential projects]] can participate in.
Q: Will every element of this be [[free software]]?
:Not necessarily.  Free software and open source models have [[problems with free software and open source models|problems]].  A [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] may develop or aggregate "non-free" software to assist in the compilation and validation of information to guide purchasing.  For integrity reasons and to prevent bad copies and misleading competitors, this may require a more specific [[Consumerium License]] regime.  We reserve the right to use your contribution to achieve the general goals of Consumerium.  Discussions remain GFDL so that a different implementation on the same design could be, conceivably, created as "pure" free software for those ideologues who want it.


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We invite you to participate by editing proposals and discussions below.  '''Any page can be edited by anyone''', or restored to a previous state by anyone, which is the convention we assume will also apply in operation in this '''R&D Wiki (see [[What Consumerium RD Wiki is not]], [[guidelines]] and [[rules]] for do's and dont's'''
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