I kinda thought that but wouldn't a better way to solve this problem be at the protocol layer and not the infrastructure?
i.e. httpf or httpfs, smtpf, imapf, dnsf, etc. I care more about my message (and communications) being "free" (as in beer and speech) than the hardware (and OS) it traversed. So in a world where you had a mix of "free" and commercial infrastructure (which seems realistic), my "free" data (communication) would be routed accordingly. ??? On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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