share your wi-fi, get some wi-fi

Casey Bisson posted an extremely interesting project dedicated to sharing wi-fi.  It's called the Fon Movement, and their self-description follows:

It all started as a simple idea. Why should you pay for Internet access on the go when you have already paid for it at home? Exactly, you shouldn’t. So we decided to help create a community of people who get more out of their connection through sharing.

You have to buy a special Wifi router and use it to (securely and safely) open your own personal wi-fi connection to everyone else. Once you do that, you can use the wi-fi at any other FON location (which you can find using the maps on their website).

Casey also tells us that GigaOM is was, but is no longer, giving away the routers for free right now if you buy bought the router and enter entered the promotional code 795811379574011.  Oh well.

Even better than this hardware option is the promise that a software-only version is on the way (I'll go for that).