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I've had similar thoughts in the past and brought them up on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625917 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625917

• forkandwait 17y ago
  The above post links out to http://autonomo.us/ http://autonomo.us/, where Stallman talks about Software as a Service and its anti freedom implications. It is interesting reading, but I think collective projects can be Free (as in freedom) when they are collectively controlled and open; this is the important difference between Wikipedia (Free) and Google Docs (not Free). I don't think the important difference is technical, as RMS seems to (whether or not an application "belongs" local or remote). "Collectively controlled" is the hard problem. It is probably impossible to solve cleanly without hard tradeoffs, whether in a society (do we let people shout fire? consensus versus majority vote? one vote per share or one vote per person?) or in a computer project (do we sanction bad editors? Are certain topics off limits? etc). So... I think a Gnu FB is actually an awesome challenge, both technically and socially.