On 11-05-12 at 12:18pm, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:34:45AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > FreedomBox really isn't about stuffing freedom-tech into all sorts > > of small hardware, but on stuffing those pieces into specific beige > > ones that we can mange to make dead simple for non-techies to use. [...] > > No, FreedomBox success do *not* rely on shipping it to chinese or > > iranian users, or being able to swallow, or properly doing mesh > > networking. Those are all great things, but icing of the FreedomBox > > cake. FreedomBox is about passing some of what us techies already > > use every day onto our non-techie friends! > > I didn't understand the same from Eben's talks, which were mentionning > this chinese or iranian as some of the targeted users, or at least > people that this project should help.
Designing new technology may help at opressed places when it has matured. Using existing technology to shift towards decentralized communication at non-opressed places helps at opressed places too, and does so sooner. > Please stop putting yourself as the guardian of this project, which > you are not. True, I am not. And I dont: I simply share my opinions, as do others. And I have do not plan to stop. Feel free to killfile me if you wish. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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