On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, pineapple wrote: > I know this may sound funny, but did you try IBM?
Reality check: *No* company of any size is going to give money to Freenet. They're going to say, "Stay away from my ten-foot pole! Don't touch it!" Good reasons to stay away from Freenet: 1) It's lousy for file sharing. 2) You can file share. 3) It's anonymous. All the reasons any company might be interested in Freenet are performed by other P2P projects that don't have anonymity. If you want a distributed media content distribution channel platform blah blah blah, why do you need anonymity? What, are you doing something criminal? If you want to research and develop routing algorithms or how to handle peer trust issues, why do you need anonymity? Are you hiding something? And then there's all the things Freenet *is* being used for that require anonymity. Even if it's something good, it's simply too sticky a pot for any company to get their hands in. If the Freenet Project wants funding from some organization, it's going to have to come from someone who's ideology is in something where Freenet would help. Some organization like: Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org/ http://www.amnestyusa.org/ Or Radio Free Fill-In-The-Blank: http://radio.weblogs.com/0118924/ http://www.rfa.org/front/ http://www.rferl.org/ Or some other like-minded organization: http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Human_Rights_and_Liberties/Advocacy_Organizations/ There are plenty of organizations that exist just to give out money, according to this list: http://dmoz.org/Society/Philanthropy/Organizations/ If we can prove to these people that Freenet is good for something (and getting better!) they may kick a few bucks our way. -todd _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
