Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free as in Freedom Network Services [was: Tackling Network Effect]

[Miles Fidelman]

Patrick Anderson wrote:
> > I am willing to pay for domain registration and hosting if nobody else
> > volunteers, or no organisation can donate it, if there is a good design. (Of
> > course, donations would be welcome to help spread the cost!)
> We could compete with Facebook immediately (the Free Software is
> already written) if we understood how to cover the costs of *HOST* that
> software in such a way that those costs continue to be covered, even
> as those hardware requirements increase in scale.
Ahh... you mean USENET! (Remember USENET?  It's still humming along.)

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