[P2P-F] http://gigaom.com/2011/02/17/building-the-technology-stack-for-internet-freedom/

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks for your perspective Sepp, you are probably right ...

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Sepp Hasslberger <sepp at lastrega.com> wrote:

> Hi Michel,
>
> this seems to be a bit of an opportunistic move by the New America
> Foundation. They take things that are not theirs, that are easily available,
> and say they are going to do something with them (combine them into a
> "stack"?) but they do not specify what exactly they are planning to do.
>
> They applied for a large piece of a pie of public funding - 3.5 Million $
> out of a 25 Million $ fund announced by Hillary to promote technologies that
> can be used to get rid of regimes that aren't liked by their own citizens
> and the US administration. It is an effort to get some of those public funds
> that real open source developers only dream of getting, because of political
> maneuvers like the one of the New America Foundation, which is a "public
> policy institute and think tank"...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_America_Foundation
>
> I don't believe this is a valid effort of getting p2p communications going.
> It's more like a jostle for funding...
>
> Kind regards
> Sepp
>
>
>
> *"The individual is supreme and finds the way through intuition"*
>
> http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/
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> On Feb 18, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
>
> http://gigaom.com/2011/02/17/building-the-technology-stack-for-internet-freedom/
>
> hi sepp, thanks for having a look,
>
> Michel
>
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