The Freedom Box
The ultimate goal is to bring to market easy-to-use and economically affordable devices that
promote long-term maximization of important constitutional liberties in
2 stages:
1. Freedom of choice of audiovisual content on TV at home;
2. Freedom to communicate via Internet with levels of authentication,
privacy and security that are adequate to constitutional rights.
Specifically, the Freedom Box project:
A. Organizes events and produces studies geared to demostrate the commercial and ethic importance of free/open software software to TV Media
Center market, and the need for collaboration, coordination and consolidation
among the various active projects:
- Conference on IPTV 2.0, 15 October 2008 in Rome
- Comparative Study on major TV Media Center available as FLOSS
B. Promotes large-scale distribution in the Italian market of one or more TV Media Center (or set-top box) using free/open source software, through one or more joint venture by important private and/or public entities. The Operating System and all programs installed on the box will be distributed under free licenses, preferably the GNU Affero GPLv3 or GPL v3. The working title of this Media Center is ZBOX.
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