Interview: Michiel de Jong

The Free Software Foundation Europe has posted a fellowship interview with Michiel de Jong, creator of the Unhosted project (which was covered here in January). "In order to write Free Software, all that is required is the time and skills of the developers concerned. But there is no way to make Free Software available to the world online which doesn't involve a monetary cost, because doing so requires the use of servers, and whoever owns those servers will charge you a monthly fee. Our architecture for separating code and data, leaving the processing in the browser, fixes that: it makes it very cheap to host Free Software web applications because all you have to host is the application logic, the code files, not the data that drives it."

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