Niels G. W. Serup wrote: > The best thing would be to promote things like the FreedomBox.
The FreedomBox has many fundamental problems. ISPs block ports and disallow you from running servers. You are allowed to use those ports and run servers only if you pay much more and understand how. Grandma (non-gurus) do not know how to deal with all the complexities of running servers and opening ports and backing-up their data. The cloud is coming, and we had better have a realistic alternative for the billions of people that will be drawn to those very efficient and convenient services. Cloud computing (in other words, server-side, shared computing and storage) has many benefits, including data redundancy, deduplication, higher utilization, the ability to access your data from any other computer, and some others I don't remember right now. Even if those were not problems, we still have the ISPs blocking us and spying on us in all various ways. Who should own the ISPs, if not the people that already pay for them?
