My proposal is this: if we could disaggregate the logs, while providing the people all of the same features, we would have a Pareto-superior outcome.
Everybody – well, except Mr Zuckenberg - would be better off, and nobody would be worse off.
And we can do that using existing stuff.
Interview: Eben Moglen - Freedom vs. the Cloud Log - The H Open Source: News and Features
He continues on in detail about using little $99 plug-in servers to create a P2P social networking service:
And so, basically, what I am proposing is that we build a social networking stack based around the existing free software we have, which is pretty much the same existing free software the server-side social networking stacks are built on; and we provide ourselves with an appliance which contains a free distribution everybody can make as much of as they want, and cheap hardware of a type which is going to take over the world whether we do it or we don’t, because it’s so attractive a form factor and function, at the price.
Now that is awesome, and interesting. Highly recommended.
