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What is Tunes ?
Actually, this is the first of many
Frequently Asked Questions
(a.k.a. FAQ) about Tunes.
Here are partial answers to these questions.
Tunes means Tunes is a Useful, Not Expedient, System. It is a project to provide (both design and implemention) of a computing system, based upon a paradigm of total computing freedom.
Its scope is the whole computing world; it aims at absolutely all
kinds of users (we make no arbitrary racial or other distinction among them),
from newbies to gurus, humans or machines, and all kinds of computing,
professional, amateur or leisure.
Its approach is based on a permanent, serious, deep reflection about how
the computing world could be, how it should be, and why it should be so.
Of course, the project being in early development stage, we're currently
rather looking for the guru (or would-be guru) amateur type of collaborator.
Don't be modest; if you're ready to work it out, you can become a guru easy.
The project is currently not funded anyhow, and lives by the spare time of its
collaborators.
Among its features, it would be a fine-grained, decentralized and distributed, persistent system, that would allow dynamical interaction in a unified way. Of course, it will also be secure and resilient to network failures.
The entire world may be virtually running the system with mostly isolated computers being considered as having very slow and unreliable network links. The project will freely distribute all its code over this world, and offer (non-free) support for it. Code will be copyrighted so that it will stay freely distributable, but the project will still control commercial use, distribution, and support of any code produced.
The project is recursively divided into subprojects each having its own maintainer, according to the Tunes Charter. This page is the root project of the above hierarchy.
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