Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> writes: > My point is that it is not even a legal issue, but a strategic one: > even if legally safe it is bad approach.
I don't know if I agree. I've always imagined a FB as mostly replacing the "interface" provided by cloud services, not always the "storage". I also don't think FB can hope to replace the "incumbent" social-networking silos overnight. For example, I use flickr. I certainly don't publish *all* my photos there, but if I was using FB as my interface to the Internet I would certainly want an option to do so (e.g. "broadcast to unfree services" or something when publishing a photo). Also, some services provide things which would be really hard to do from a freedombox, like Twitter's ability to SMS to mobile phones. Or (reliably) store the 90GiB of photos I have. I also don't agree that "occasionally dropping in" to your "old" services by hand is a good solution: it's simply too much pain. For me, part of the point of the FB is to have ONE interface for your network persona: I don't want to publish a photo three times. Total two-way inter-operation may be hard or impractical (or even legally problematic) for some services, but I think -- especially for the popular ones -- that it should be available wherever possible. Some of my friends and family don't -- and probably won't ever -- care about a lot of these issues enough to not talk to (some of) their friends (as much) anymore. This is what non-interop with Facebook would mean for them, so looking at it from their perspective I'd be trying to "sell" them on a box which would allow them to talk to me, but cause it to be harder (or at least no easier) to talk to all the friends they have on Facebook. An analogy would be all the Windows and OS X interop software available for free software: I suspect a lot fewer people would use GNU/Linux and friends at all if there was (on purpose!) no NTFS support, no SAMBA, openoffice didn't load Word, GRUB only booted free OSes, Firefox only ran on free OSes, etcetera etcetera. Even if *every* free-software advocate/user found FB to be awesome and used it, you're still talking a not-very-huge percentage of Internet users... My thoughts, -- mike warren [email protected] + http://www.mike-warren.com _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
