On 26 Jan 2006, at 11:38, Guido Winkelmann wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 20:29 schrieb Ian Clarke: >> On 26 Jan 2006, at 10:59, Joel Salomon wrote: > [...] >>> Bittorrent? >> >> Requiring the user to download a P2P app in order to get our P2P app >> is a bit silly, by that argument we may as well use Dijjer. > > Well, bittorrent is pretty much standard for many people by now.
I don't know what percentage of computer users have BitTorrent, but many don't. > Also, > bittorrent doesn't need to be run 24/7 to make best use of it, so > it isn't as > such in "competition" with Freenet. Its not about being in competition with Freenet, its about the convenience of allowing people to obtain Freenet. We need to ensure that there are as few obstacles in the way as possible. BitTorrent would be an unnecessary obstacle to adoption. The vast majority of other free software projects manage to allow people to do direct downloads of their software from a websites, which is far more convenient than downloading from BitTorrent, there is no good reason why we can't either. Ian.
