GnuBucks Follow-up

[C.J. Collier]

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 18:47, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     First of all, in terms of Karma Points (Heretofore, GnuBucks), I
>     apologize for using the GNU moniker without asking the GNU project first
>     for permission.  I was not aware this was a faux pas.
> 
> I wouldn't want to make it sound so harsh.  I'm touched that you
> thoght of doing this under GNU auspices.

Then perhaps GnuBucks will be the internal code name for Karma Points
(or whatever it ends up being called). ;)

>     Since frendster.com is not a Free Software project, I've decided that
>     the idea should be re-implemented
> 
> I don't know anything about friendster, so I have trouble
> understanding what you say about this.  You're talking about how to
> implement a system to do a job I don't know much about.

Okey doke.  Give me a week or so.  I just got a couple of new contracts,
and I need to eat.  So I'll get on this after I finish a couple of
those.

In the meantime, I've set you up with an alias:

rms-friendster at colliertech.org: rms at gnu.org

which you can use if you're interested in looking at the current
implementation, but need an easy way to filter incoming mail from
friendster.  My profile is here:

http://www.friendster.com/user.jsp?id=69291

> Rather than talking about the implementation, I would like to look at
> the overall idea.  Why do I want a site to store my list of
> acquaintances?  I'd rather do this on my own computer where the police
> need a search warrant to get it.

And that's the end goal!  This whole ISPs-are-the-end-all-be-all stuff
kinda' scares me.  I like running my internet services from my house as
well.  But since ISPs are the ones that have the largest user base, they
are the easiest targets.  Making the software easy enough to install
that each user can run a server to catch, store and display incoming
requests on their own machine is, I agree, a better solution.  And I
think the same should be true of things like email, calendars, personal
software dev bug tracking, and e-money.  Why trust others with your data
if it'd be just as easy to trust yourself?

C.J.