To elaborate, When Michael Thornburgh and I started amicima, our goal was to get our protocol technology into the hands of as many people as possible, and for it's advantages for both client-server and peer-to-peer communication to transform the web.
As a GPL-licensed open-source protocol stack, MFP made it into a few university student projects, nothing more. With a GPL-overriding proprietary license, it made it into one thing... the AllPeers client, which unfortunately no longer exists. But the second generation of that protocol, RTMFP ships inside every copy of Flash Player 10.0 and AIR. 1.5... historic upgrade rates would suggest that means we are distributing between 5 and 15 *million* copies a day right now, and will be on >90% of all Internet-connected desktop machines in a year or less. (Not just more than the number of machines running Linux, Flash Player is actually on more machines than Windows is, as a percentage of Internet-connected machines) AND that protocol isn't tied to a closed application that can only do one thing... instead it is connected to a virtual machine for which open-source compilers and component libraries are available. If you develop with (closed or open source) tools that emit object code for that virtual platform, you can run on more machines than if you ship object code for any other platform, even Win32/x86 *and* use this protocol. I think more people will use the technology Michael and I developed with this kind of wide distribution than used it as a GPL-licensed open-source library, but I guess we'll just have to see. Matthew Kaufman (Sent from my iPhone) >> >> >> >>>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
