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The project is basically about asking: what if computers were designed to serve us instead of corporations?
In our [ideal society](less_retarded_society.md), one of the versions of the public domain computer could be the [less retarded watch](less_retarded_watch.md).
Note that **the computer has to be 100% from the ground up in the true, safe and worldwide [public domain](public_domain.md)**, i.e. not just "[FOSS](foss.md)"-licensed, partially open etc. It should be created from scratch, so as to have no external [dependencies](dependency.md) and released safely to the public domain e.g. with [CC0](cc0.md) + patent waivers. Why? In a [good society](less_retarded_society.md) there simply have to exist basic tools that aren't owned by anyone, tools simply available to everyone without any conditions, just as we have hammers, pencils, public domain mathematical formulas etc. -- computing has become an essential part of society and it certainly has to become a universal "human right", there HAS TO exist an ethical alternative to the oppressive [capitalist technology](capitalist_technology.md) so that people aren't forced to accepting oppression by their computers simply by lack of an alternative. Creating a public domain computer would have similarly positive effects to those of e.g. [universal basic income](ubi.md) -- with the simple presence of an ethical option the oppressive technology would have a competition and would have to start to behave a bit -- oppressive capitalist technology nowadays is possibly largely thanks to the conspiracy of big computer manufacturers that rely on people being de facto obliged to buy one of their expensive, [proprietary](proprietary.md), [spyware](spyware.md) littered non-repairable consumerist computer with secret internals.
**The computer can (and should) be very [simple](KISS.md)**. It doesn't -- and shouldn't -- try to be the way capitalist computers are, i.e. it would NOT be a typical computer "just in the public domain", **it would be different by basic design philosophy** because its goals would completely differ from those of capitalists. It would follow the [LRS](lrs.md) philosophy and be more similar to the very first personal computers rather than to the "[modern](modern.md)" HD/[bloated](bloat.md)/superfast/fashion computers. Let us realize that even a very simple computer can help tremendously as a great number of tasks people need can actually be handled by pretty primitive computers -- see what communities do e.g. with [open consoles](open_console.md).