[Freedombox-discuss] "What's a Distributed Social Network?" -- the comic

[Mark J]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Robinson Tryon
<bishop.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I realize that for the FreedomBox project to become wildly successful
> it will need to have a PR team that promotes a positive, powerful
> image of the product and that downplays any successes of "the other
> guys". The thing is that most of us are used to hacking on technology
> in a world in which things generally don't grow much larger than "Geek
> Famous," because we usually wouldn't bother to put in the time; we'd
> much rather work on another cool new project.

If I may point out:  the Internet started out as "Geek Famous" and it
did okay.

Good ideas don't need "a PR team".  Freedom is a good idea, people
will want it, it will never go out of fashion.  Trying to market an
idea can bring attention that is premature or too much to be
distributed in a healthy way.  But keep spreading the word :)

Also, if I might point out.  Consider the notion of freedom only works
if we're all free.  If we're all free the premise for developing hard
security goes away.  The issues of security are a red-herring and can
suck a lot of brain resources trying to solve an ultimately unsolvable
problem:  there is only a relatively small need to establish a modicum
of personal security and bit for the containment of personal effects
in order to assign credit fairly, otherwise there should be free range
to-and-fro, like the natural ecosystems.  If we don't have this in our
society, then there's a larger problem that needs to examined and
fought for (the concept of "right to property", for example, is a
total boner of an idea)

See "Manifesto" on the pangaia.sf.net wiki and "security".

With ya bro,

Marcos,
the PanGaia project.