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Their website make it really hard to figure out what the heck this is.
by freshyill 11y ago
Their website make it really hard to figure out what the heck this is.
- jordigh 11y agoDoes this video interview from 2011 give you a better idea? http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7358702n http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7358702n Not sure if these guys are still selling them: http://projectdanube.org/freedombox/ http://projectdanube.org/freedombox/ The idea is nearly the same as what arkOS is trying to do: https://arkos.io/ https://arkos.io/
- Flip-per 11y agoSo far there's a couple of prototypes and no boxes were sold. A small initial batch (100 boxes) is planned for 2016.
- daveloyall 11y agoIn March 2013, in Boston, Mr. Moglen publicly blamed the ever-receding launch date of the FreedomBox on a fire at the dev's house. Or something like that. I wasn't really paying attention! The whole thing sounded like vaporware, and I hadn't yet heard him speak about matters of privacy law and software freedom--topics on which he is on far better footing!
- sowbug 11y agoThis post's landing page is suboptimal. This one is better: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Introduction https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Introduction
- adrtessier 11y agoAgreed. I couldn't figure it out at all without navigating around a bit. Someone with some HTML/CSS ability should attempt to donate some time to fixing this web page's messaging issues to get the product across better, to those technical or otherwise.
- dublinben 11y agoThis isn't a product, so it doesn't need a flashy landing page.
- chris_wot 11y agoI thought the same thing, but then I clicked on the Learn link and it was made pretty clear.