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Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin
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chad |
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Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin |
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Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:49:01 -0700 |
On Jul 31, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> As for the server, isn't that what Freedombox is for?
Freedombox looks (to me) like it's more about open, secure, private
communications infrastructure, rather than Free compute servers. There is some
overlap, and maybe there are plans to expand Freedombox, but as an example,
Freedombox would be aimed more at making sure users aren't trapped in gmail,
yahoo, facebook, and twitter, while Joakim is talking about making sure users
and developers aren't trapped in Google App Engine or Amazon Web Services.
As computing usage moves out of the office and onto mobile devices, quite a lot
of desired computing activity is moving into free-not-Free and cheap network
services that are (currently) opaque and encumbered. For many of these
services, the source code is open, but the service itself is closed, ala
TiVo-ization. Quite often, developers use these services (Google or Amazon)
simply because the Free alternatives either don't exist or are much more costly
(in time and money).
I hope that helps,
*Chad
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