Re: [P2P-F] Funding research on better alternatives to Gmail, Facebook, Dropbox etc... was: Internet under threat - can US Congress defend against Obama-Stasi state and Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft

Hi Marco and all, This is very good news to me. I have been wanting to do a similar thing but have never gotten around to it.

Regardless of funding

As strange as it sounds, I am very happy this is targeting software that runs on *shared* hardware. Sharing hardware is is a very difficult but extremely important problem that we must solve. I have been working on a "business model" to help us with this and with the apparent need for continuous external funding. This will help us compensate those who setup, operate and maintain servers and so quickly cover the earth with our alternative. Patrick Anderson http://ImputedProduction.BlogSpot.com