Fabian Rodriguez wrote: > using a commercial service where free open > source software is behind all the infrastructure
Even if the network service provider uses 100% Free Software, you are still at their mercy when it comes to whether they read your emails and use that data to target advertisements to you, and whether they release your emails to the government, and whether they generally just spy on you and subjugate you in various ways. We can solve this problem by learning how to share the hardware needed to host that software. Once we understand how to share hardware for hosting software, we can create truly Free as in Freedom services for all the 'cloud' computing that will become extremely popular over the coming years. If we deny this importance, and intend to stay in our individual caves as the cloud providers and ISPs and cell-phone network owners harm us in various ways to their benefit, then we will become less and less relevant as the hardware owners grow in strength and viciousness. This fundamental problem is considered to be of so little value that I cannot find a single person willing to work toward a solution. Instead I am told it is off-topic - as though software can exist without hardware!
