I love the freenet project. I don't like that for some
reason it's done in java. I happily ran a node
something like a year ago and it was great. At the
time
I was running it on my x86 FreeBSD machine. I later
put in a sparcstation 5 as my firewall running NetBSD
1.5.... And could no longer run a freenet node. 

I notice that the java interpreters all have
proprietary licenses save kaffe, and kaffe is in sad
shape. I have a hard time seeing how something like
the freenet project can say with a straight face that
it's done in java so that it's cross platform. java is
horrible and I hate it very much. I'm not a developer.
I'm sure I'm one of the less technical people on this
list. Somehow I feel a lot more comfortable with 
something written in C and not building than I do not
even having a java interpreter (or whatever it is) for
my platform. I haven't seen a single sane bit of 
discussion regarding why it's done in java. Maybe I'll
find a thread regarding that while I dig through
archives some more but I just check the freenet site
every couple of months hoping someone involved with
the project woke up one day and had the realization
that java is NOT cross platform. I miss running a
freenet node.

Matt


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