[Freedombox-discuss] Introductions

[Joshua Spodek]

On la, 2010-08-28 at 21:11 +0200, paxcoder wrote:
> > We are settled on distributed storage.
> 
> Are we? Can you provide a URL to the mail message where we decided
> that? 

Eben mentioned in his talk at Debconf --
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2010/debconf10/low/1252_How_We_Can_Be_the_Silver_Lining_of_the_Cloud.ogv
-- that however eroded the Fourth Amendment in the U.S., governments
around the world tend to respect one's home more than most other
places, such as cloud servers, located who-knows-where (around minute
34).

I understood this point by Eben led to general agreement on supporting
keeping data in one's home for that reason, whatever additional options
users had for storing data wherever else.

> Did we also decide that we can not, must not, support the option for a
> user to buy online storage space from a suitable provider they trust
> more than an experimental distributed online storage system?

I'm not aware of anyone suggesting not supporting using other online
services like you mentioned.