Re: [Social-discuss] Hosting Freedom and Hardware Sharing

[Henry Litwhiler]

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On 04/24/2010 07:21 AM, Patrick Anderson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been thinking about a different approach to this problem that
> would allow us to use software that has been in operation for decades,
> and is already being used by Google, etc.
> 
> I wonder what it would take for us to cooperatively purchase and
> manage more traditionally centralized servers so we can host the
> software that is already written and running.
> 
> For example, we could start a "Free as in Freedom" email service, a
> video hosting site, cloud services, etc.
> 
> Another advantage to this approach would be that you could access your
> account from any other terminal.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Patrick Anderson
> Social Sufficiency Coalition
> http://SourceFreedom.BlogSpot.com
> 
> 

While this idea may be a noble one, what we would be doing, in effect,
would be creating what is already there. The only difference would be
the people running it, so it would still come down to users having to
trust the server operators enough to surrender over their data.

We need to give users the tools to perform social networking functions -
not just supply them with another service.

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Henry L.
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