In my mind, the key piece of functionality for a freedombox would be as my authoritative address book. From there, email, jabber, SIP, status.net, diaspora, etc, are just obvious extensions. This is really the key, because whoever owns your address book owns everything that uses it automatically.
Other multi-device-sync and web services like a password manager and dropbox thing would be nice, but they're significantly less important because they don't have the network effect power of the address book dependent stuff. In fact, if Google has everyone's address book, having a dropbox clone on your freedom box doesn't really matter - network effect will force you to Google Drive. -- Nat On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Nick M. Daly <[email protected]> wrote: > So, I always worry that we (as a list and project) might end up chasing > ideals or hypotheticals ("wouldn't it be cool if...") instead of actual, > deliverable, software. To help prevent that, I'd like to hear from > folks what you'd actually like to use the system for. If enough people > get behind any particular idea, we should try to make it a priority for > the next hackfest. > > I want to use it as: > > - A Jabber Server. > > - A replacement for DropBox (a file storage / synchronization system). > > - A wiki/Evernote replacement (for all those crazy ideas I want to write > down somewhere). > > Anybody else? > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >
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