[Freedombox-discuss] is a distributed search engine (e.g. YaCy) to be part of the FB package?

[ya knygar]

> You mean the Freedombox foundation? Why is that? We're in the business of distributing/'dehierarchizing'  things - as far as I'm concerned, that's FB's main mission. Search is a very important web tool. Not as important as a distributed alternative to DNS, but more important than distributed storage. Many use "the cloud" for storage, but *all* search the web, and in light of recent auto-complete filters for stuff like mediafire, dropping all .co.cc domains (actually subdomains, but still), not to mention the great Chinese firewall, it's important to have a non-oligopolized alternative. You can encrypt your data and upload it to multiple cloud services anonymously. But if Google denies to show you a site, how will you know it exists? I'd vote for a software package such as YaCy being installed by default, but perhaps unchecked in the 'choose software' list. Selecting it during the installation, though, would activate it for the world (depending on further settigns), much like a proxy, Tor, or anything else.

+1 , i could elaborate widely, especially on Promoting the adoption of
freedom search stack and other corner stone kernels,  but i'v though
FreedomBox is already for it.

> The box as shipped will have a relatively small subset of possible
> packages (just as Debian installation has a small subset of the repo's
> packages).

Where was it decided and when?