[Hamara-devel] Just Got Raspberry Pi Delivered

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Thu Oct 29 19:15:59 GMT 2015


Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2015-10-29 19:18:12)
> I am quite enthusiastic about the core concept Eben Moglen coined as 
> "FreedomBox" at his talk¹ at Debconf 2010, which sparked the Debian 
> "freedomBox" project and later the US-based non-profit "FreedomBox 
> Foundtion" led by Eben Moglen.
>
> That said, I do not agree with the approach taken by those actively 
> developing the project (and have no clue what the Foundation is 
> doing): What got me involved was the emphasis on non-geeks - i.e. that 
> is was basically a server equivalent to "Linux on the desktop" now 
> arguably solved by GNOME, KDE, Xfce and (to a lesser extend) other 
> projects.

I totally forgot: If you want someone more enthusiastic about it to talk 
about FreedomBox, I dearly recommend you to invite Sunil Mohan, arguably 
the main developer of FreedomBox nowadays: He lives in Bangalore so 
shouldn't be too much of a challenge to have him pay you a visit :-)

Sunil Mohan <sunil at medhas.org>


 - Jonas

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