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Cozy Cloud and percloud: a comparison

Shortly after launching my proposal for a personal, p2p replacement of Facebook, Gmail and similar services I was contacted by the developers of Cozy Cloud. We had a very interesting discussion, which ended with their proposal to write a post for their blog, to explain what similarities, differences and possible synergies I see between the two projects. Here I am, looking forward to your feedback!

Here is how the percloud would work, in practice

I just got an email by somebody asking how the Free Software alternative to corporate social networks that I call percloud would work. I answered that…

Who will make the percloud happen? Traditional FOSS advocates, or everybody else?

A reader of my critique to the “Linux owns the Internet” slogan just made the comment integrally copied here:

"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

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