From 289f4e891e160c284e80584a752a8409c20c608b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Giacomo Tesio Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 22:49:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update POLITICS.md --- POLITICS.md | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/POLITICS.md b/POLITICS.md index b298907..da307d0 100644 --- a/POLITICS.md +++ b/POLITICS.md @@ -1,16 +1,21 @@ # Social goals of Jehanne -Jehanne is an educational tool: I want people to learn how to -admin, program and extend it. +Jehanne is an educational tool: I want to empower people by +turning them to hackers. To this aim I want to build the simplest possible distributed operating system that can provide all the services people expect -from a modern operating system and much more. +from a modern operating system and much more. This way, people +will be able to read and understand its internals and to code +their own tools for it. As a research tool, it want to challenge as many well established -assumptions as possible, such as the need of POSIX. +assumptions as possible, such as the need of POSIX semantics at +kernel level. It also want to bring new ideas to OS research, expanding the Overton window in this field. -I want its distributed design and protocol to challenge the Web. +I want its distributed design and protocol to challenge the Web, +increasing the ability of people to securely compose remote +applications without leaking personal data.