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Re: [linux-team] Request For Comments: OPEN ISP.



> Same impression; when I connected my home PC to tornado.com, some years
> ago, my provider was also MS-centric (at least the local one) and ignored
> all the basic standard procedures to establish the slip connection. By the
> way, he was friendly but was not able to help.
>
Infonie uses MS-Chap. I've already recompiled pppd to use MS-Chap, but I've
had no luck. Nowhere in their site I've found a link for linux
configuration. If anyone has already connected to Infonie with linux,
please, let me know.

> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The project may attract a good fraction of the interesting guys, just
> wanting some help to start with Linux, and perhaps interested to
> collaborate to (or to become user of) some collective projects (like your
> proposition for encryption, common infrastructure ...).
>
And today I found out about the FreeNet Project
(http://freenet.sourceforge.org) and the SOS (Save Our Sats -
http://http://www.saveiridium.com  ) There are a lot of ideas out there that
can fit in the 0800-LINUX Open ISP

> A free connection means some sacrifice (speed? advertisements? lost
> privacy? ...), and I prefer to continue to pay for a decent service, 24/24
> without any connection loss or a long queue to connect.
>
No advertisements. No loss of privacy. If we run advertisements we will
increase the level of complexity to the projet, and will give more garbage
to eat to our users.
About speed, I just can tell you that it depends on how much funds we get. I
don't like long queues neither. And if you prefer to pay for a decent
service, well, maybe you could donate a fraction of what you actually pay to
this project.
Quality must be one of the main goals in this project. If we don't get
enough funds to have the phone lines we need to cover our demand, we could
restrict, temporarily, the amount of hours per day for each user.
Do you think ISPs are hones when they talk about "speed"? A lot of ISPs have
more phone lines than bandwidth allows. So, overall, you don't have a long
queue to connect, but run at low speed.

> So I am not sure that all must be 'free' to be interesting : a good
> service and a creative environment can allow to ask for at least a small
> fee.
>

Yes, I agree with you. But it's a choice the end user has to make. The
service must be free from the beginning to succeed. In order to estimulate
people to donate money to the project, we could send them a monthly
newsletter to let them know the status of our finances and ask them for help
if we are running low on money.

>Any comments?

Today in Portugal the European Union Countries agreed to reduce internet
access prices to allow more families to use the net.
I can see that our project fits very well in the political trends in Europe.
We are in the right moment!

Carlos


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