In March 2013, in Boston, Mr. Moglen publicly blamed the ever-receding launch date of the FreedomBox on a fire at the dev&#x27;s house.<p>Or something like that.  I wasn&#x27;t really paying attention!<p>The whole thing sounded like vaporware, and I hadn&#x27;t yet heard him speak about matters of privacy law and software freedom--topics on which he is on far better footing!