Internet intelligence must remain with each individual player on the network, in a spirit of sharing among peers, to avoid creating a Minitel (a pre-Internet videotext terminal and service) version 2.0.
To ensure equality for all, whether citizens or businesses, not only is it essential to avoid monopolies, but large organizations must be prevented from grabbing personal or public data.
Using tutorials to explain how to increase the use of free solutions that will allow a fairer Internet, we help to distribute codes and diversify usage.
This model also has an educational aspect because we believe that by documenting ways to setup services, many users will in turn be able to share these resources.
The “de-google-ify Internet” project - which does not exclusively concern Google - consists in <strong> offering as many alternative services as possible to those we consider a threat to our digital lives</strong>.
Google Docs, Skype, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Google Agenda, Youtube, Doodle, Yahoo! Groups, and many others, are extremely convenient services but <strong>they have become far too large and have made us dependent on them</strong>. Framasoft wishes to resist this trend and is putting forward a roadmap for setting up alternative services over several years.
These services are free, gratis, open to all (insofar as our technical and financial capabilities allow us), as <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons" title="digital commons">digital commons</a></strong>. With the goal of decentralising the Internet and promoting self-hosting, we will do our best to ensure that everyone can install their own services (for themselves, for their organisation, or their company).
Of course, We are not aiming <em>to compete with</em> these services, We merely wish to offer a space that is neutral, non-commercial, and in no way aggressive towards its users.
