Yannick thanks, by the way, for the analysis of the state of available telephony software.
On this bit: On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 16:22 +0100, Yannick wrote: > [....] I will put it as simple as I can : > from my point of view, the project is not about "something that works", > "efficiency", "open source", "business", etc. Of course this matter. But > the core is "freedom". With means something appealing that works based > upon freedom. > Freedom is not "open source" or "business". Yes. Let me be very clear that I don't think that the freedombox project should be defined as the goal of creating "1,000" small businesses. Some of us who like the strategy, though, can work on this 1,000 small businesses approach as our method for helping the freedombox project gain strength, resources, and users. Personally, I am concerned that if the community does not succeed in creating a society of small businesses --- yet does make a freedombox technology that becomes popular --- that a few large businesses will inevitably come to dominate the project. Such large businesses can come to quietly dominate choices about what technology is developed. They can easily, without so easily being noticed, reintroduce losses of personal privacy by "centralizing" in ways that are hard to spot. I am also concerned that if we do not quickly create a small business culture among those of us who want to build and promote the freedombox, it will be more likely that the project stalls are goes too slowly. Yes: the project is about freedom. Business is a tool. > Technically put, each freedombox has to be intelligent providing a lot > of services replacing centralized ones, not a stupid terminal relaying > central services like google, facebook, etc. In France we do have a word > for those terminals: "minitel". Today we are on the way to going back to > this. Ask around you, it is where the business is... I know. In the United States, research in the 1960s and 1970s on time sharing operating systems was partly driven by the notion that the telephone company (or perhaps a firm of similar power) could have a monopoly on computers -- with terminals in every home. It is an old dream and, in many ways, modern web technology and data center technology has brought it back to life. Freedombox is, in part, about resisting that trend. > This is the reason why i promised to give money to the project, to pay > development! > Best regards, > Yannick To you as well, -t > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
