----- Original Message ----- From: "Manuel Padilha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 10:44 PM Subject: [Tech] freenet vs. freenets
> On Monday 04 August 2003 20:27, Gabriel K wrote: > > [....] > > > Hmm maybe I have missunderstood something about freenet.. I always > > assumed there are *many* freeNet networks.. > > Is there just one? I thought it's meant like DC, that anyone can start a > > little network. > > It's just like ANY network.. you can have a home network, a enterprise > network, a global network (like the Internet) and you can even route things > in and out of those networks. Ok, the reason I asked this was because I said earlier: "I say that it is likely that networks will form where most users are from a specific region in the worlds, for instance scandinavia. So their activity will have it's peak at some time. And at this time I think it's not hard to reach the limit!" > Freenet is no different. It can be used to share content inside your house > (and in that case it is not only incredibly slow, but also completely > unapropriate), it can be used to share data across an enterprise (there's > still little point to doing it and much better solutions exist) and it can > be used on a global scale, in a world-wide dynamic environment (where its > mechanisms to prevent censorship and prosecution become useful and > attractive). Yeah.. I don't see a need for anonymity within an enterprise.. or is there? Encryption yes, but why anonymity? > Having that said, i've tried to use Freenet as a development plataform for > an entreprise-wide distributed system and found it next to impossible to > acomplish. > Freenet is not flexible. It is meant for really big networks and that's the > kind of environment where it performs well. > > And maybe that's how it is supposed to be :) Yeah I guess so... that's what most ppl are interested in anyway hehe :) /Gabriel _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
