The year 2024 is running towards its ending and Hyperbola as project has made steady progress to its next release and also forming up our own BSD-descendant operating-system HyperbolaBSD.
Nevertheless we see the need to make a statement also about issues we all should be aware off: Free, libre software needs clear principles and values. Integration of problematic and non-free defined services for examples is no point for any discussion. Also the on-going debate about "machine learning" is not really promising in its current direction. The newer the hardware itself, the more restrictive it is and the lesser it is possible to maintain and repair parts. So 2024 was and is a clear warning about the future. As project Hyperbola has defined already what we dislike and reject, but we do not think this is enough.
Hyperbola was and is a project oriented fully on the community: Software and ideas created from the community for people, not from companies and corporations. So we want also to underline our stance for technical emancipation, for the individual and group-oriented freedom. But all part of freedom is always part of the inclusion under democratic principles and in relation of the protection of our environment.
Our operating-system is only respecting projects under these principles. We love software free and libre licensed, with free source-code and do one thing well. Software adding more and more "features" is not part of our perspective. To do a new job, build a fresh program rather than complicate existing ones by adding new "features".
We have specified what we dislike, but we surely like UNIX as well as free, libre software and democracy.