[Freedombox-discuss] Freedom databases >>> Hosting

Patrick Anderson agnucius at gmail.com
Thu Aug 11 23:18:51 UTC 2011


Is there any chance we could co-own some of these 'FreedomBases'
as small groups while retaining our Freedom?

Is it possible to share hardware for the benefit of that group without
taking Freedoms from others?


If so, then we should discover and define what those groups must do
if they are to avoid going the way of all Corporations...

Once we have this understood, we should be able to fund and co-own
Internet Service Providers (ISPs), cloud datacenters, etc.


Notice we, the users ALREADY pay all the initial costs of building
that infrastructure, and we CONTINUE to pay all the operating costs.

So it's not like we can't afford it.  Hell we pay *more* than costs
(we pay Profit) only because we have not taken the responsibility
of ownership upon our collective selves, but instead continually
beg the current owners to do the 'right' thing.


The current owners *cannot* do the right thing because their
investors expect to be paid Profit, and Profit requires scarcity.

We can overcome this by paying our users-as-micro-investors
with the Product itself (in this case 'connectivity') and will never
even need to sell the Product (since the users are the owners
already), causing Profit to be undefined and Price to equal Cost.



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