Freedometer

From Freedom Dreams Wiki

Freedometer will tell you how free your system is, and help you improve it. It was inspired by this blog post.

[edit] Software

Freedometer is still in a development state. The code I have written so far can be found at github. You can download the sources as a tar or zip, or from git:

git clone git://github.com/Bjwebb/freedometer.git

The code that I have written so far is in Python (version 2.5 required), and can currently detect the operating system it is being run on, and give some limited feedback based on this. It is only on debian based distros that it can scan packages (at the moment) - the included vrms 1.14 is used to do this.

[edit] Ideas

• In order to not annoy users, it must be possible to undo any action performed with freedometer.
• Freedometer could also replace, or integrate with, the firefox plugin install and restricted driver manager, in order to provide better explanations in these places.
• Freedometer could also scan media and document files, and offer advice on open document and media formats.
• Since the download/install prodcedure is different for different platforms, part of the freedometer could be a dynamic website which would tell the user, in vague terms, how free their system is using the User Agent information.