Stop at Zona-M

The real problem that the percloud wants to solve, and why it's still necessary

Believe it or not, I only discovered arKos last Friday, through this Slashdot announcement: a project (apparently) very similar to the percloud, which is my own proposal for a Free Software alternative to Facebook, Gmail &C.

"How Linux owns the Internet" is SO wrong. And bad. But luckily...

Have you seen that article titled “How Linux owns the Internet”?

Call to fund research on an easy and COMPLETE alternative to Gmail, Facebook etc...

UPDATE 2013/09/17: THIS PROJECT NOW HAS A HOME AT per-cloud.com

I have been using my own email service and self-hosted blogs since 2006/2007. I started explaining why everybody should do the same three years ago, when I proposed Virtual Personal Email Servers to overcome the big limits of today’s email. In 2011 I repeated why it is important to find alternatives to Gmail.

Since real support for privacy, control and data ownership should be present in everything we do online, last January I also pointed out that alternatives to corporate social networks already exist and only need proper packaging.

Now the Snowden/NSA/PRISM affair has finally made evident, to an audience immensely larger than geek circles, that I (with many others of course) was right. Everybody, including non-geeks (no: starting from them) should have, as soon as possible, at least the possibility to

Why Mailpile, FreedomBox, Diaspora... aren't enough

Google Reader quits? That's wonderful, because...

This is a WONDERFUL occasion

The alternatives to Apple, Facebook & C already exist. Shall we package them?