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In response to Mr. Moglenbs call for help, a group of developers working in a free operating system called Debian have started to organize Freedom Box software.

Mr. Moglen said that if he could raise b slightly north of $500,000,b Freedom Box 1.0 would be ready in one year.

They raised more than 60,000 US dollars in 5 days on kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/721744279/push-the-freedombox-foundatio... "The donation that pushed us over the edge came from Blaine Cook, the former lead architect for twitter, which is a nice vote of confidence, but we would like to take a moment and send our thanks out to all of the people who have helped contribute to this great drive, and encourage everyone else to take a look." They announced on their website yesterday http://freedomboxfoundation.org/news/Thank_you_Kickstarters/ Praveen -- `4*`5 `40`45`5`4#`5 b `4`40`4?`4.`5 `4*`5 `40`4$`5 `4$`5 `4`4?`4/`4?`42`5 b You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE