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DIY: Building A Wireless Freenet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keep-commons-from-becoming-tragic dept.

techmuse writes: "Moshe Bar has an excellent article at Byte describing how he designed a wireless freenet for his community, and convinced his neighbors to participate. Most importantly, the freenet has resulted in new forms of interaction and strengthened social ties within his own local community (the inverse of what happens on the wider Internet)." And since consumer-grade wireless access points are now cheaper than a large hard drive, this sort of guide is especially welcome.

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  1. Open Source out of business? by antis0c · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Funny, they don't seem to mention all the other Windows based Web Hosting or Internet companies going out of business, the Windows driven DSL companies going out of business, or RedHat, one of the largest supporters of Linux, actually turning a profit when all other companies including IBM were losing money. But yeah those obscure companies they mention that just so happened to use Open Source software in their business, yeah it's the software's fault, not bad management.

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  2. Re:From the article by alien88 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    actually, if you paid attention to the news at all, the NASDAQ $1 delisting rule has been suspended for a few months. I believe until January of 2002

  3. Freenet? by jimmcq · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    So, wait a minute... what does this have to do with Freenet?