On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:53:14PM -0000, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> Quoth Oskar Sandberg:
>
> >On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 11:34:30PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 03:21:21AM -0000, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> >> > Sigh. But this is an open-source project. Which means if I want this
> >> > done, I should do it myself and submit it. But I really haven't read
> >> > through the freenet code, I don't know how the whole thing works in detail,
> >> > and who knows if I'll be able to follow through? Well, I can take a look,
> >> > and maybe someone else out there is interested in helping out?
> >>
> >> I'll write a Guide to Hacking Fred for a reasonable fee >;'b
> >
> >But people here shouldn't expect that coding this sort of thing will
> >be enough to have it added. We need strong compelling evidence (as well as
> >the right gut feeling) before such changes are made.
>
> Fair enough. But while coding may not be a sufficient condition, it would
> seem to be a necessary one. It seems to me that if done right, this plan
> can't hurt freenet, even if it isn't proven to help it. But then, I don't
> make the call (and there's good reason for that). I may be wrong, that may
> not be enough, etc. But anyway, it might get written and not added, but it
> certainly can't get added without being written.
My hunch is that this feature will prove extremely difficult to implement in
a sane way, and won't really help the network (mostly b/c it will only be
useful for big files and will therefore be obviated by client-side splitting).
> >And it's called Free software...
>
> Please. I'm not trying to make a political point, one way or another. Can
> we find a politics-neutral term? Actually, what's probably more to the
> point is that this is a collaborative project.
I think he was just kidding one or the other of us.
--
# tavin cole
#
# "Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that
# man doesn't have to experience it."
#
# - Max Frisch
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