Welcome back Ian, did you arrive safely in the States? Anyway, I have to agree with Oskar on this one, the Napster/Gnutella (Naptella) has been bugging me for a while to. Freenet is being compared to Naptella all over the net, we don't need to do it ourselves, at least not on the main page. I know you probably have to compare Freenet to Naptella all the time for the Press, so I guess we should stick it in the FUD-FAQ.
The main difference between Freenet and Naptella to me is, that Naptella are file sharing tools, whereas Freenet is an Information distribution medium. So allthough technicly we might be similar (peer to peer that is) the goals are very different. Perhaps we should stop refering to Freenet as peer to peer (who needs buzz words),since althoug the technical relationship between the nodes may be peer to peer. The relationship between the information provider and consumer is not.I guess that is the confusion between Freenet and Naptella. Naptella are peer to peer in the relationship between information provider-consumer. Neil P.S. I wanted to stick something in about that they are not comparing themselves to us but the Gnutella Websites consists entirely of a qoute by you.!aaaaaaaaaaargh > > > By ignoring the fact that Freenet is considered to be similar to Napster > > > and Gnutella we will not make it go away. It is a much more honest > > > approach to tackle this head-on, rather than burying our heads in the sand. > > > > And like always, I don`t give a flying fuck what most people (/sheeple) > > think Freenet is, I care what _thinking_ people think that Freenet and the > > Freenet project are about. Putting that text on the frontpage as the first > > thing people reads makes it seem like _we_ think we are building a Napster > > clone... > > The problem is that if you ignore the uneducated, then they will never > become educated. If we only encouraged people who fully understood > Freenet to use it, then Freenet would probably have about 50 users. We > must be pragmatic. The reality is that Freenet is, in some ways, > similar to Gnutella and Napster, particularly Gnutella, in that they > both reject centralised servers to make them more difficult to attack. > Of course, Freenet is much more than either Napster or Gnutella, and > started with much broader aims than merely trading copyrighted material, > yet we have to accept that many people were introduced to Freenet by the > copyright debate. We must also accept that freenet will be useless > without users, even if many of them are newbies who don't fully > understand what Freenet is about. > > Ian. > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev > > _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
