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How do you pay for it? I have a team of capable engineers, and relationships with network/wifi hardware/firmware developers. What I don't have is $2-10M to spe
by nupark2 15y ago
How do you pay for it?
I have a team of capable engineers, and relationships with network/wifi hardware/firmware developers. What I don't have is $2-10M to spend designing open protocols (and building the software), especially with no obvious commercial upside.
- dasil003 15y agoNo idea, but that doesn't mean it can't be done either non-profit-wise or even with significant upside, it's just your chances of VC-money and selling to a major corporation for fuck-you money are diminished relative to TechCrunch friendly buzzword related startups.
- redthrowaway 15y agoNon-profit might be the best way to go, here. I'm sure you can wrangle up enough in donations and FOSS contributions to make it work. The idea of an Internet free from political and legal malfeasance is one whose time has come, and enough people are realizing that fact that there should be sufficient collective energy to move a well-designed system forward.
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- libraryatnight 15y agoThis is what I was going to say. If Diaspora rallied over $200k being billed as an open source facebook alternative, imagine the excitement something like this would garner.
- marquis 15y agoKick-starter? I'll pitch in just to see a decent (and open) white paper come out of it.