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?

Comments

Re:Newsbyte is a well known troll

[lousyd]

Whether or not Newsbyte is a tool isn't really an interesting issue - let's talk about the ideas that are going to make the network actually usable!

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.