Am Dienstag, 23. August 2011, 13:56:32 schrieb Matthias Kirschner:
- Hannes Hauswedell h2@fsfe.org [2011-08-17 03:59:09 +0000]:
He has a good point, we should discuss this...
On the website we link there is the source code of the software. So I would propose we just remove the "online" and write him, that everybody can set it up. What do you think?
His point was a different one: That the source code is available makes the software better from a global point of view (because people can make copies and improve on them), but using a gpled web-service provides no benefit over using a proprietary one from personal point of view (we actually encourage people to send their data/files to another web-site for processing!) and is definitely a lot worse than using Free Software locally. The only thing remotely equal to using Free Software locally is combining AGPL and Zero-Knowledge infrastructure, as previously described by Richard[1].
If we recommend a web-service, for something that can aswell be done without a web-service, we should make this very clear. Otherwise people will call us hypocrites: "You say Adobe does not respect my privacy, because they *could* snoop on my files, but recommend sending my files directly to some dubious homepage, because of some license? And you can't even prove that the software running on the site is actually Free Software?"