I agree – and there are lots of projects working on it, to just mention 2 more web-related ones: http://freedomboxfoundation.org & http://freenetworkfoundation.org
It‘s a long effort though, and using proprietary servers out of our control only as distributed commodity storage is definitely a step in the right direction, also because data is in control of users and not taken hostage on servers of individual apps. At the moment though, the perfect is the enemy of the good. Software freedom should only be a means of people freedom. And having that software inclusive, visible, usable and interconnected is a requirement for that. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:09 PM, wrote: > Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: >> we have to unhost web apps so the power & logic >> is at the client, and servers are only used as stupid, >> encrypted commodity storage. > > We, the users, must co-own the servers and the > buildings housing those servers, and the ISP connecting > us to those servers, and the factories used to create > those servers, and the power-plants used to power > those servers, and the fields used to supply the food > needed to power our bodies, and the water-rights > needed to grow that food, and the mines needed to > create all the tools needed for those operations, and > all the other parts, recursively, for all the production > needed to continuously recreate our daily needs for > all the things we need. > > To leave any of this to corporations that we do not > control is to relinquish control of the planet to those > that must subjugate us in a variety of ways to > perpetuate the scarcity required in their maniacal > quest to keep price above costs. > > > > Patrick Anderson > http://SocialSufficiencyCoalition.BlogSpot.com > http://ImputedProduction.BlogSpot.com > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
