Design Hardware/Software for Global Civil Society

-cman- writes "White box builders and Gnome hackers take note! With the announcement of various oxymoronic "trusted computing" initiatives in recent week, Bruce Sterling, self-appointed Pope-Emperor of the Viridian Design Movement has announced a new design contest to design a '...genuinely trustable, cheap, well-designed, rugged, sexy, accessible computer system that is owned, manufactured and operated for, well, Global Civil Society.'" I'll buy one.

Comments

Prototype only

[zoombat]

Umm.. note that they're asking for prototypes, not the real thing...

From the web page:

• As longtime slashdot readers, we know perfectly well that the mere 1,750 people (and counting) on Viridian List can't possibly build a global computer operating system fully suitable for human rights orgs. Therefore, what we want from you is a Viridian Imaginary Product. It's the graphic screenshot of such a system. Imagine what that device might look like, and what it might do.
  

Practice what you preach

[da007]

http://www.viridianrepository.com/ was made with microsoft frontpage. bastards.