On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Tracy Reed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:treed@ultraviolet.org">treed@ultraviolet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:40:24PM -0600, Anthony Papillion spake thusly:<br>
<div class="im">> Are we seriously going to ask people who might not be techies to flash their<br>
> mobile phones and routers? Isn't the goal of the project to make this as<br>
> accessible as possible?<br></div></blockquote><div><br>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> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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I'm hoping that they will just install an app on their Android or iPhone.<br></div>
People have proven they know how to do that.<br></blockquote><div><br>I think that may be a worthwhile project, but I don't think it is a FreedomBox.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> Is hardware still totally up in the air?<br>
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</div>Apparently.<br></blockquote><div><br>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>
<br>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></div></div><br>-- <br>Bjarni R. Einarsson<br>
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