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Towards an Internet-Scale Operating System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the worldwide-reboot dept.

gschoder writes: "Two Berkeley computer scientists (including David P. Anderson of SETI@home) envision an Internet-scale operating system to harness the processing power, networking efficiency, and storage capacity of everyone's computers. Scientific American has their proposal."

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  1. Re:Sounds like Freenet II by Sanity · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    BTW, I've been scarcely less critical of Gnutella than of Freenet in the past. Just yesterday, in fact, I posted a comment on this very site referring to Gnutella as an "unusually naive" protocol.
    Do you want me to thank you for stating the obvious?