We are talking about building a free as in speech alternative to facebook and twitter. We have the low cost hardware, we have a free as in speech OS as well as a solid free (again as speech) stack on top of that.
The problem was that the protests in the Arab world were largely organised on Facebook and Twitter. These represent single points of failure and censorship. The idea is to have a federated, free and open solution to replace this that can't be as easily taken down. Think Identi.ca but for facebook. It is not just Facebook, there are all sorts of hosted (aka "cloud") solutions that we have little ultimate control over. It just makes sense to have an open and federated alternative. There are a lot of pieces already in the works, like Identi.ca and Feng office, and so on. There just is no co-ordinated platform to compete with Google Apps/Google+, Facebook etc. Sent from my Android device. Please excuse my brevity. On Jul 5, 2011 2:15 PM, "Greg Saunders" <[email protected]> wrote:
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