[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox as a home router to replace Cisco/Linksys

[Markus Sabadello]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Mathieu Jourdan
<mathieu.jourdan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2012/7/3 Brian Drake <Brian at drakewolf.net>:
> > This increases the per-box cost a bit but eliminates ports that would be
> > absolutely useless to us which could also save money.  No need for audio,
> > HDMI etc.
>
> In my opinion, there is very few people being interested in buying a
> routeur or a switch, while there is many people being interested in
> buying a multimedia player.
>
> If we want to bring "freedom out of the box" to people, then the box
> must be appealing. We won't seduce facebook and youtube users with PoE
> and JTAG ports!
>

Haha yes I had the same discussion with someone a few days ago :)
Many people won't put a DreamPlug into their living room.
But when the things gets productized, why shouldn't it be possible to
customize it and give it a pretty design.

Mathieu
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