[Crossposting to chat, where this belongs] ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Morken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 7:47 PM Subject: [freenet-devl] Re: Intel Freenet > Hi all, > > >You should also note that Ian's been very good about keeping Uprizer > and the Freenet Project as very, very separate entities. If you have a > question about the terms of Intel's investment in Uprizer, I'd suggest > you call or email them. I'd be greatly surprised if they wanted to > reveal their contractual obligations to you, a third party, but you're > welcome to try. > > Well Mr. Bad I think that it is important to minimize corporate influence in > an opensource project which advocates freedom. I find it interesting that > freenet is advocating free speech while Intel is building a company for the > Freenet project leader. Once the code is in the hands of Uprizer/Intel does > it no longer advocate free speech and is it no longer opensource? If I read this interview correctly (http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/05/05/uprizer.html), Uprizer is only doing things tangently related to Freenet (basicly, the Freenet we all know and love without the anonymity requirement, which would cause a great boost in efficency). Uprizer has done some things to help the core Freenet development in the past (such as hosting the mailing lists), but as Mr. Bad points out, Uprizer and the Freenet Project, Inc. non-profit are seperate entities, and Ian has been very good about keeping it that way. What Uprizer does is their own buissness, and frankly, we are not obligated to them in any way. > Will > Intel "contractual obligation" additions to the code be made public? Maybe > you don't recall Intel's history of putting unique identifiers into its PIII > processors but I do! :) That was bad, and they did back down once enough pressure was placed on them. Note that at the same time, they added a hardware random number generator to their chipsets, which could be a massive boost for cryptographic applications. AFAIK, AMD has not added any such ability to their chips. (Even so, my last major upgrade was to an AMD, and my next one probably will be, too). _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
