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Reptile: P2P Content Syndication
Let me just quote, because I can't pack the buzzwords that tightly: "The OpenPrivacy project would like the announce the creation and initial release (0.0.1) of Reptile. Reptile is an Open Source/Free Software, Peer-to-Peer, content syndication engine (think RSS/OCS), which is driven by Java/XML and is privacy protection/Reputation enabled. Reptile nodes can publish to each other (everything is driven by XML based subscriptions) and provides a decentralized authentication model based on public/private key crypto (and Reputation)." Interesting stuff.
The OpenPrivacy project would like the announce the creation and initial release (0.0.1) of Reptile . Reptile is an Open Source/Free Software, Peer-to-Peer, content syndication engine (think RSS/OCS), which is driven by Java/XML and is privacy protection/Reputation enabled. Reptile nodes can publish to each other (everything is driven by XML based subscriptions) and provides a decentralized authentication model based on public/private key crypto (and Reputation).
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So good for them. All I'm really seeing with their demo is web surfing at less than half the speed (encryption, right?).
This and Peekabooty and Freenet all suffer from the same problem: they're trying to surreptitiously allow end users in ideologically restricted areas (the US and decryption, China, the Middle East, etc.) but while they're not surfing for restricted material in plaintext, constantly sending obviously encrypted packets back and forth is likely just the red flag that authorities need to look for to black bag a computer and find out what you're up to.
If someone puts their thinking cap on and converts Spam Mimic to a distributed system and somehow manages to graft on a keyed infrastructure, then people with artificially restricted access to the Internet really will be able to get at information that The Man doesn't want them to see without the Stormtroopers Of Death kicking their door in. Well, at least until The Man gets hip to having to kick in the door of every single person who gets spam...
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so basically they have completed the name...which will probably be changed in 0.0.2
I read a number of posts in the "Petreley on Ximian and Mono" article, and the fears that people have on Microsoft's Passport service.
This is exactly the initiative that is needed, a Peer-to-Peer authentication service that no major company has exclusive rights on. I applaud the initiative and hope it turns out well.
With descriptions like that, I'm still not quite sure what this is.. :/
as far as I can see, it appears to be merely a glorified version of slashboxes, with an index that updates itself.
I'm sure theres something else (the really nifty bit) that I'm missing.. just dont know what it is
Quite an oxymoron
- Content comes from where it always comes from: people writing it in XML, or writing it in Word docs & having it converted to XML
- Where does it get stored? Any ol' file system will do.
- Where does the presentation come from? It's XML -- who cares? XSL, or the Xerxes Java parser on top of some HTML templates (as in Dynamo)... the Tomcat Struts engine handles XML nicely. It's XML. Just content. No presentation. That's the point.
- Where does that get stored? In your html docs directory. (these are all based on my experiences with teh ATG Dynamo engine... anyone who's worked with WebSphere or something else may have a diff't answer)
As to where the engine gets stored, i'm not sure I can say... probabaly a personal preference thing. Yes, I can understand if buzzwords get you down, but don't go asking questions that anyone who's had experience working with XML-based content can answer as if they were mysteries that had puzzled the sages.AHHHHHHH! I'm burning with goodness again!
- Reakk, Sluggy Freelance
The name "Reptile" is taken by Sausage Software for it's web page background graphic generation software. I was wondering what was going on when I saw that by another company.
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Once Passport has a foothold, Microsoft can update Passport and the .NET run-time environment to break all those e-commerce applications built with Mono.
Ah yes, the ol' "you can't reproduce Office because Microsoft will just change the format" argument. Simple, easy to understand -- and wrong.
The fatal flaw in his argument is that people don't upgrade instantaneously. Microsoft can't arbitrarily change the communications format because they would break their own software unless customers upgrade.
In fact, to the contrary, it was much easier for Microsoft to change things like Office because they could make deals with closed-environments like a big company where everybody gets upgraded at once. When we are deal with something like this, even Microsoft can't get the whole Internet to upgrade at once.
Once Microsoft sets the standard, they will be hamstrung into supporting it forever.
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Open source/free software projects need marketing communications, just as do commercial products.
I hope the Open Source movement will soon get over the habit of giving unattractive names to its products. I hope Open Source projects will eventually have home pages that actually explain the project in a way someone who has not followed the project from the beginning can understand.
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