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Revamping Freenet
N3wsByt3 writes "Many will have heard about the anonymous P2P-system Freenet. What many probably don't know is, that a big change is at hand: the Freenet developers have decided to drop all support for the 0.5x version, to skip version 0.6 and to completely revamp the 0.7 build into some kind of poorly described, presumably scalable darknet. The main coder even threatened to quit if such a darknet would be rejected.
So, is it finally going the right way with the development of Freenet? Maybe not, since they seem reluctant to provide real data and rather rely on security through obfuscation, and then there is still the problem of their general inability in regard to pooling human resources, which, for any OSS project, is of the utmost importance." Obviously, the article submitter has his own feelings on Freenet, but notwithstanding that, what's the latest scuttlebutt from within the Freenet crowd?
I agree with the notion that Newsbyte is a troll and not worth listening to. I also agree that it'd be much more interesting to talk about the network/project itself.
In my personal opinion the project *has* moved forward, in the form of a (not-quite-) forking. A long time ago, a talented coder named jrandom showed up on the Freenet development list and announced that he had a great idea about how to make Freenet better, and if Freenet didn't want to implement his idea, he understood, but he was going to fork it. Well, Freenet didn't want to implement his idea, and he has essentially forked it. Only, it became much more than a simple fork. It turned into a project all its own, with very different design goals, but with the same philosophy of providing an anonymizing network. And his network actually works. Now. As far as I'm concerned, it's the phoenix rising in the ashes of Freenet.
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That's why I don't talk to people. Inter-personal communication is really just a terrorist-friendly and pedophile-friendly network. There really ought to be some agency to police verbal conversations between people so no bad things are discussed. I don't want to be seen conversing with someone on the sidewalk because that's how terrorists and pedophiles communicate and I don't want to be lumped in with those vicious creeps.
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> go ahead and complain,
Now there's a pot calling a kettle black.
"Waaaa, your review sucks"
> no one really cares as your 'review' has no relevance.
then why did you bother replying?
Usually before I try something out I like to see what other people have to say about it myself, so it will matter to others like me, and if it pisses on fanboys like you I really don't mind.
> Strange how others don't seem to have those problems.
See all the other posts here. Your perception is skewed fanboy.
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No, more like the scum under the pot..
Let me rephrase my original comment " your entire existence is not relevant, not just your incorrect and useless comment"
Other posts? Well, if they don't agree with me they are just as worthless. Only my opinion has any merit. And anyone that doesn't agree should be wiped from the face of the earth as they have no value to me.
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