You don't educate people by simplifying the truth, you patronize and insult them.
I would like it to say something like this: "Freenet is a new way of looking at network and data communications. Instead of the network being made up of interconnected servers, the only constant infrastructure on Freenet is the data itself which freely moves between the network's many nodes. Because of this, data on Freenet is not tied to any location or physical identity, allowing the network to offer privacy for both publishers and consumers of information, and making it impossible for anyone to censor and forcibly remove thoughts they don't agree with." This is the revolutionary thing about Freenet, and making it sound like a Naptella clone completely misses this - Naptella has nothing to do with seperating the physical layer from the information, they just present a convenient way to search for data on servers that for one reason or another (dynamic ips or illegal data) are too volatile to be found by the normal search engines. On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 12:04:28AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > 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 > -- \oskar _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
