Freedom Box Foundation

slappyman · Feb 15, 2011

Has anyone seen this story yet. A Columbia law professor is trying to reshape the internet. He created the Freedom Box Foundation to promote the work on software. Here is part of the New York Times story and a link to the full story.

The list begins with “cheap, small, low-power plug servers,” Mr. Moglen said. “A small device the size of a cellphone charger, running on a low-power chip. You plug it into the wall and forget about it.”
Almost anyone could have one of these tiny servers, which are now produced for limited purposes but could be adapted to a full range of Internet applications, he said.
“They will get very cheap, very quick,” Mr. Moglen said. “They’re $99; they will go to $69. Once everyone is getting them, they will cost $29.”
The missing ingredients are software packages, which are available at no cost but have to be made easy to use. “You would have a whole system with privacy and security built in for the civil world we are living in,” he said. “It stores everything you care about.”
Put free software into the little plug server in the wall, and you would have a Freedom Box that would decentralize information and power, Mr. Moglen said. This month, he created the Freedom Box Foundation to organize the software
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/n...ytimes.com/pages/world/middleeast/index.jsonp#

wa bluska wica · Feb 16, 2011

is a good thing

funny, after a few months of using winblows have the last day or two thinking i am really ready to go back

there's a debian set around here somewhere . . .

LoneDeranger · Feb 17, 2011

I'm glad there's an Eben Moglen. We need more of him.

Thanks for the link.

raysun · Mar 8, 2011

tks for the link

RooRshack · Mar 8, 2011

Fucking cool.

My dad was talking about those, using them for actual work. He mentioned they had the capacity to fill the role of home server, but i haden't followed up on them. (besides, I like my massive 55lb full tower, with it's 750W PSU and multipule drives... Currently running with the side off and a box fan to keep things cool. screw cell phone charger size )

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