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- msgid "The year of the FreedomBox"
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- msgid "[[!tag debian blog editorial]]\n"
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- msgid "I am involved in developing something coined as the [FreedomBox]."
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- "Explaining it to my [mum] the other day, she wisely asks if, albeit clearly "
- "an exciting challenge we've picked, it really is doable? Agreed the World "
- "has gone sour, but is drastic change even possible?"
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- msgid "Annoying question! And clever :-)"
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- "For some years, tech media has tried predict when Linux have reached "
- "momentum for ordinary users. That current or next year was to become [the "
- "Year of the Linux Desktop]. Funny thing, seen in restrospect, is how \"the "
- "year\" kept being postponed, and when finally [OLPC] paved the way for the "
- "boom of Netbooks and arguably we got there, the World had moved on: Now Free "
- "Sofware is as common and as usable on desktops as commercially driven "
- "systems. Is taken for granted, not praised, and we look forward for the Next "
- "Big Challenge (as geeks) or Next Big Excitement (as users)."
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- "Perhaps a similar fate is to be expected for FreedomBox: [Initially] when "
- "sparking our interest, and [repeatedly] [since] while we still have nothing "
- "concrete to demonstrate at all - heck, even [before] we started haccking on "
- "it or knew the name of our dreams - our [Prophet] declared the Year of the "
- "FreedomBox. Not explicitly, but cleverly abstracted as \"right now\"."
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- "I am excited and proud to be working on FreedomBox, and foolishly hope it "
- "will be ready for worldwide consumption in a very recent \"right now\" - "
- "well aware that most likely it won't happen like that. Thing is, I don't "
- "care _how_ it happens, just that it does. The trick is our way of working: "
- "Hacking might be expressed as larger projects, but really is juggling piles "
- "of smaller pieces of the puzzle, constantly ensuring that each piece is "
- "usable in more than one way and across more than one project. I do not "
- "_only_ work on [FreedomBox], just as I did not _only_ work on [Sugar] before "
- "that, or _only_ with [Debian] as my platform:"
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- "I work on Freedom-enabling technologies and ways to frame them for the World "
- "at large to move itself."
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- msgid "I sure hope you take the results for granted. That's true success!"
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- "[FreedomBox]: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox [mum]: "
- "http://ingersblog-inger.blogspot.com/ [the Year of the Linux Desktop]: "
- "http://lwn.net/Articles/258874/ [OLPC]: http://one.laptop.org/ [Prophet]: "
- "http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#eben [before]: "
- "http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Interview-Eben-Moglen-Freedom-vs-the-Cloud-Log-955421.html "
- "[initially]: http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/641.en.html "
- "[repeatedly]: "
- "http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2011/fosdem/moglen-fosdem-keynote-highlights.html "
- "[since]: "
- "http://mediasd.cbsnews.com/media/2011/03/06/eve_sieberg_306_1100.m4v "
- "[Sugar]: http://sugarlabs.org/ [Debian]: http://www.debian.org/"
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