> You mean the Freedombox foundation? Why is that? We're in the business of 
> distributing/'dehierarchizing'  things - as far as I'm concerned, that's FB's 
> main mission. Search is a very important web tool. Not as important as a 
> distributed alternative to DNS, but more important than distributed storage. 
> Many use "the cloud" for storage, but *all* search the web, and in light of 
> recent auto-complete filters for stuff like mediafire, dropping all .co.cc 
> domains (actually subdomains, but still), not to mention the great Chinese 
> firewall, it's important to have a non-oligopolized alternative. You can 
> encrypt your data and upload it to multiple cloud services anonymously. But 
> if Google denies to show you a site, how will you know it exists? I'd vote 
> for a software package such as YaCy being installed by default, but perhaps 
> unchecked in the 'choose software' list. Selecting it during the 
> installation, though, would activate it for the world (depending on further 
> settigns), much like a proxy, Tor, or anything else.

+1 , i could elaborate widely, especially on Promoting the adoption of
freedom search stack and other corner stone kernels,  but i'v though
FreedomBox is already for it.

> The box as shipped will have a relatively small subset of possible
> packages (just as Debian installation has a small subset of the repo's
> packages).

Where was it decided and when?

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