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$5 Social Wi-Fi Router
slashjunkie writes "BBC News is running a story about the Spanish firm Fon, selling subsidized Linksys WRT54GL Wi-Fi routers for $5, in exchange for the buyer agreeing to a 12 month contract of providing access to other Fon users within range. With the financial backing of Google and Skype, their goal is to create Wi-Fi networks, street by street, across Europe and the US. Buyers of the subsidized routers can classify themselves as 'Linuses', whereby they also get free access to all other Fon hotspots, or 'Bills', where they receive 50% of the revenue made by on-selling their Wi-Fi to other Fon users. 'Alien' users can buy 24-hour passes for 3 Euro. To deter misuse, all Fon users must identify themselves by a username and password before they can access the hotspot. As long as the owner's personal LAN is not accessible, this could be a good way to offset the costs of the average geek's bandwidth bill."
Buyers of the subsidized routers can classify themselves as 'Linuses' , whereby they also get free access to all other Fon hotspots, or 'Bills' , where they receive 50% of the revenue made by on-selling their Wi-Fi to other Fon users.
:) And what about Steves (Jobs, not Ballmers) ? Is he behind the masked black alien face ?
Linuses Torvalds and Bills Gates ?
I'm sure there's some hidden message here, but I'm not sure what it means...
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Could i get one for 5$ and flash it to a orignal one?