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Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent
lkcl writes "The GitTorrent
Protocol (GTP) is a protocol for collaborative
git repository distribution across the Internet.
Git
promises to be a distributed software management tool, where a repository
can be distributed. Yet, the mechanisms used to date to actually
'distribute,' such as ssh, are very much still centralized.
GitTorrent makes
Git truly distributed. The initial plans are for reducing mirror
loading, however the full plans include totally distributed development:
no central mirrors whatsoever. PGP signing (an existing feature of git)
and other web-of-trust-based mechanisms will take over from protocols on ports
(e.g. ssh) as the access control 'clearing house.'
The implications of a truly distributed revision control system are
truly staggering: unrestricted software freedom. The playing field
is leveled in so many ways, as 'The Web Site' no longer becomes the
central choke-point of control. Coming just in time for that
all-encompassing Free Software revolution hinted at by
The Rebellion Against Vista,
this article will explain more fully
some of the implications that make this quiet and technically
brilliant project, GitTorrent,
so important to Software Freedom, from both technical and
political perspectives."
Software Freedom = Stealing? Any reason for a centralized torrent list site (even if it is technically decentralized physically) seems to only have one point...making itself immune to prosecution for doing illegal things. Yes, there are a ton of legit uses for Bittorrent, but all of these legit uses could be hosted on a website (much like torrents are today) without feat of prosecution. Am I missing something, or is this all about the piracy?
"whilst"?
Seriously?
they do indeed. the one thing that people forget about rainbow-powered unicorns is that those spikes are _really_ sharp, and unicorns have a natural instinct to stampede over eeviiillll mwahahahah