On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Robinson Tryon <[email protected]> wrote: > I realize that for the FreedomBox project to become wildly successful > it will need to have a PR team that promotes a positive, powerful > image of the product and that downplays any successes of "the other > guys". The thing is that most of us are used to hacking on technology > in a world in which things generally don't grow much larger than "Geek > Famous," because we usually wouldn't bother to put in the time; we'd > much rather work on another cool new project.
If I may point out: the Internet started out as "Geek Famous" and it did okay. Good ideas don't need "a PR team". Freedom is a good idea, people will want it, it will never go out of fashion. Trying to market an idea can bring attention that is premature or too much to be distributed in a healthy way. But keep spreading the word :) Also, if I might point out. Consider the notion of freedom only works if we're all free. If we're all free the premise for developing hard security goes away. The issues of security are a red-herring and can suck a lot of brain resources trying to solve an ultimately unsolvable problem: there is only a relatively small need to establish a modicum of personal security and bit for the containment of personal effects in order to assign credit fairly, otherwise there should be free range to-and-fro, like the natural ecosystems. If we don't have this in our society, then there's a larger problem that needs to examined and fought for (the concept of "right to property", for example, is a total boner of an idea) See "Manifesto" on the pangaia.sf.net wiki and "security". With ya bro, Marcos, the PanGaia project. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
