Difference between revisions of "Free Software Personal Servers (LP09)"
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This is a good idea, but I fear it might be too broad a goal. It seems to me we should focus on special-task personal servers before trying to make the grand unified one, which this seems to be proposing. -- [[User:bkuhn|bkuhn]] 12:15, 21 March 2009 (EDT) | This is a good idea, but I fear it might be too broad a goal. It seems to me we should focus on special-task personal servers before trying to make the grand unified one, which this seems to be proposing. -- [[User:bkuhn|bkuhn]] 12:15, 21 March 2009 (EDT) | ||
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Revision as of 14:07, 31 March 2009
Proposed by Wes Felter
Free software took off because of the freedoms offered by the personal computer, but software as a service (aka Web 2.0 aka the cloud) threatens to roll back those freedoms. However, there are legitimate benefits to network services that we should not ignore. I propose to combine the best features of the PC and the cloud in the personal server: a (virtual) server for each person that lives in a data center yet is under total control of its user. Many hackers have personal servers today, but they require a lot of unix knowledge and system administration. A new Web-based user interface for personal servers can be built that requires no unix knowledge and virtually no administration; this would make the freedom of the personal server available to many more people.
The personal server is also a better environment than SaaS for free software developers, since they no longer have to worry about paying for hosting (each user pays for their own server) or scaling (each instance of an application need only support one user).
Comments from others
This is a good idea, but I fear it might be too broad a goal. It seems to me we should focus on special-task personal servers before trying to make the grand unified one, which this seems to be proposing. -- bkuhn 12:15, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
