Er, yes. I'm suggesting userse could get new content from two sources: 1) Pay within Freedora and buy it from Amazon, centrally.
2) Don't pay and download it from BDE, decentrally. It's up to the user. Only the BDE layer would be decentralized. -david Daniel S. Menasche wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 13:56 -0800, David Barrett wrote: >> The download layer couldn't be centralized else it'd be shut down instantly. >> > > > Well, by centralized I mean downloading always from a single server. > For instance, if all users decide to get only content from Amazon, would > we call the download layer "centralized" as opposed to "peer to peer"? > > Best regards, DAniel > > >> So the "Background Download Engine" (BDE) needs to be decentralized. >> But Freedora itself -- the application that you interact with -- can and >> should be totally centralized. >> >> -david >> >> Daniel S. Menasche wrote: >>> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 11:49 -0800, David Barrett wrote: >>>> The recommendation engine could be a totally centrally-run component. >>>> There's nothing to gain by decentralizing this functionality. >>>> >>> >>> Could all the ideas that had been discussed here be implemented in a >>> centralized way? >>> >>> Best regards, Daniel >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> p2p-hackers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
