[Freedombox-discuss] Why plug servers and not smart phones?
Jonas Smedegaard
dr at jones.dk
Wed Jul 17 13:24:23 UTC 2013
Quoting Eugen Leitl (2013-07-17 13:34:32)
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:23:49PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
> > > From the FBX's point of view, what are the residual dependencies
> > > on centralist architecture? Ok, it's a Debian project, but
> > > depositories can be substituted by a self-hosted environment
> > > (BitTorrent, or related swarm delivery). It does use DNS, but it
> > > also uses hidden services, and can span up own namespace.
> > >
> > > What else is there that needs not to be there?
> >
> > What I am talking about is the project we are working on here in
> > Debian.
>
> So do I.
Great.
Then your answer above to your own question makes no sense to me,
however: The project we are [both] working on cannot substitute its
Debian packages with something self-hosted, and still be "in Debian".
> I seem to detect some unnecessary antagonism in a few of your past
> emails.
That stems from frustration. Frustration that I felt unable to explain
myself to you. I kept feeling that you where trolling - deliberately
sidestep or misinterpret what I wrote.
Really great that we are on the same page. Sorry for my lousy attitude.
> I'm not used to the Theo light treatment from the Debian side of
> things. That would be a novel experience I'm not sure I'm looking
> forward to.
What do "Theo light treatment" mean?
> > You are free to take inspiration from this project and make
> > something else. You may then want to consider calling it something
> > more distinctive than "FBX" to avoid confusing the separate
> > projects.
>
> FBX is FreedomBox. If you consider FBX to be brand dilution, and
> officially deprecate its use I'm not going to use it. Are you
> considering the FBX a bbreviation brand damage to the Debian project
> Freedombox?
If anyone were to control "FreedomBox" as a brand, that would be the
FreedomBox Foundation, I suspect, not this Debian project.
I do not speak on behalf of the FreedomBox Foundation and therefore is
not talking about "brand damage". I simply find our varying choice of
words/abbreviations confusing, that's all. Especially when used to
describe things that does not fit my understanding of what it is we are
doing together here - e.g. that this Debian project need not use Debian
packages.
> > I find your question interesting, but find it rather confusing to
> > discuss on this particular mailinglist how to make something else
> > than
>
> I'm not trying to make something else, at least not yet.
> I'm still waiting for a project milestone mature enough to
> pitch to less technical users. The project looks somewhat
> stalled, but I'm far from giving up on it yet.
Great.
> > what we are working on here. I would therefore appreciate you
> > cc'ing me if raising such question elsewhere.
>
> I don't intend to raise such questions everywhere. In fact, I think
> I'll stop mentioning Freedombox as a generic existing project, in
> order to avoid any potential confusion.
I fail to understand how not talking about it can help avoid confusion.
- Jonas
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