[wsfii-discuss] Fwd: [india-gii] wireless connectivity.. Is 802.11n the end of ethernet?

[maxigas]

hi!

i totally agree with kloschi. fon is big business and they provide
mesh access only to users who are already their customers. 

1. the Internet access they help you to build will not be free.

2. the technology they use -- although build on the labour of free
software developers (the OpenWrt project), is not free.

3. their routers are spyware: they tell the central fon server about
what's happening every 5 minutes. thereby, they are fostering the
Google culture of knowing everything around you. as someone from a
country where we for decades you didn't know which neightbour or
friend is writing updates on you for the government i am most
unconfortable with these approaches...

maxigas


From: kloschi <kloschi at subsignal.org>
Subject: Re: [wsfii-discuss] Fwd: [india-gii] wireless connectivity.. Is 802.11n the end of ethernet?
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:29:58 +0200

> 
> On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 23:07 +0530, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > so what do you folks think of this.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>
> > To: india-gii at lists.cpsr.org
> > 
> > Anybody interested in setting up Fon (http://www.fon.com) in India?
> > That's probably the simplest community mesh wifi network around, and
> > it comes in a fairly cute / easy to use package for end users who want
> > to turn their broadband routers into wireless mesh nodes.
> >                 srs
> 
> hello ram :)
> 
> fon is a top-down comercial oriented "community building" enterprise. if
> we talk _free_ information infrastructures I would avoid that kind of
> attitude from the beginning. 
> with the freifunk firmware and a website (wiki) in the local language
> that kind of community could grow by itself, without having external
> comercial attitude, imho. at least thats what happened all over germany
> and in many other countries as well with civil society based
> approaches .. the networks just grew by the interest of the
> participants / number of users or enthusiasts. and still grow.
> 
> <rant>
> why stumbling from one non-democratic situation into the next? as you
> might know, google and skype invented millions into the fon company,
> and .. well "they do not evil" .. 
> </rant>
> 
> ;) you know what I mean.
> 
> 
> kind regards,
> kloschi
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