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On 3/4/11 4:53 PM, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote:
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<div>People can discuss anything they like on this list, no one
is going to tell people to go away just because the stray a
bit off topic.<br>
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I'm not for stifling conversation, per se - but in the interest of
focusing this list and the project, I'd suggest there are other
lists for other projects and for the general topic of distributed
internet, eg:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet">http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet</a><br>
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Many of us here are lurking there, too. <br>
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I'm hoping that they will just install an app on their
Android or iPhone.<br>
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People have proven they know how to do that.<br>
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I think that may be a worthwhile project, but I don't think it
is a FreedomBox.<br>
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+1 (eg. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.servalproject.org/">http://www.servalproject.org/</a>)<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">We're almost certainly talking about a
software stack on top of Linux, which Eben hopes some
enterprising businessmen will then pre-install on plug computers
and sell in shops for $29. :-)<br>
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Odds are whatever the FreedomBox software stack ends up being,
it will probably run on all sorts of other hardware too. Some
platforms will be better than others, obviously.<br>
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Eben did give a speech and talked about making a FreedomBox; he did
talk about plug computers; funds are being raised for this thing on
Kickstarter; and this list is hosted on a debian.org domain where
there are also wiki pages with specifics (ie.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox</a>)<br>
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That's not to say that Debian on a plug computer is the only way to
achieve the goals, but I am saying that this list is about the
specific project that aims to do it that way.<br>
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