[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox at Software Freedom Day

maxigas maxigas at anargeek.net
Tue Sep 6 00:10:27 UTC 2011


From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox at Software Freedom Day
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 16:54:56 +0200

>> message was to me the first time I heard about FreedomBox. I remember 
>> thinking the Foundation website gave the impression that the 
>> FreedomBox is a subproject of the Foundation and that the TAC through 
>> the Foundation drives the development of the project. Then I 
>> discovered that the wiki was running on Debian, which suggested the 
>> project was being run by Debian. Then I found that it was not being 
>> run by Debian, but was a "Debian Blend". On top of that there is a 
>> FreedomBox Planet floating around.
> 
> "being run by Debian" is a superset of "Debian Blend", not aside it.
> 
> That said, I agree things are confusing.

As far as I see, before freedombox is a functional and
stable project, the fact that it is connected with Debian
actually ADDS credibility to it, so if you are speaking of a
marketing/mobilisation point of view, I would say it is an
advantage, not something that you might want to try to
"hide".

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