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This post's landing page is suboptimal. This one is better: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Introduction

Does this video interview from 2011 give you a better idea?

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7358702n

Not sure if these guys are still selling them:

The idea is nearly the same as what arkOS is trying to do:

So far there's a couple of prototypes and no boxes were sold. A small initial batch (100 boxes) is planned for 2016.

In March 2013, in Boston, Mr. Moglen publicly blamed the ever-receding launch date of the FreedomBox on a fire at the dev's house.

Or something like that. I wasn't really paying attention!

The whole thing sounded like vaporware, and I hadn't yet heard him speak about matters of privacy law and software freedom--topics on which he is on far better footing!

Agreed. I couldn't figure it out at all without navigating around a bit. Someone with some HTML/CSS ability should attempt to donate some time to fixing this web page's messaging issues to get the product across better, to those technical or otherwise.

This isn't a product, so it doesn't need a flashy landing page.

I thought the same thing, but then I clicked on the Learn link and it was made pretty clear.