Hi, The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.
So I was thinking, who has _already done_ a Freedom Box business? Sure enough, Joyent did this. $ whois joyent.com | grep Created Created on..............: 2003-12-06 These guys didn't launch a site that actually said anything for 18 months, and when they did, it was with a nice story that sounds awful familiar to Gilmore's recent post to this list about a "no sysad!" imperative: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20050728023737/http://www.joyent.com/ Within a few months of that, they had a proper pre-sales page with copy for their freedom box product+subscription offering: "Buying a Joyent Connector is as easy as using one: $4950 + $65/month service. And soon you’ll be able to get started with our hosted plans starting at just $10/month for your entire team." - http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20051013070429/http://www.joyent.com/ Another nice story: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20051026033353/http://www.joyent.com/experience/ Now, my vague speculation about what happened is that Joyent realised the big bucks weren't in providing semi-freedom to SMEs, but in cloud computing to megacorps, and that's all you'll see today at http://www.joyent.com But in that transition, they GPLv2'd their Connector software. http://joyeur.com/2007/07/17/joyent-connector-free-open/ and, perhaps most significantly, they produced http://nodejs.org I kindly suggest: 1. that node.js is the most suitable technology for FB interfaces today. 2. exploring the Internet Archive's copies of the joyent site 2005-2007 is worthwhile :-) -- Cheers Dave _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
