I met a very interesting group of people at DEFCON who, believe it or not, are actually using Freenet to disseminate information in China, they have a website at http://freenet-china.org/.
They have translated Freenet to Chinese and claim that they have a healthy user-base, they are distributing it on floppy-disk (to do this they have modified it to work with Microsoft's jview)! I pointed out that Freenet was still in development, but they assured me that everyone using it is informed-of and fully accepts the risks. One thing that was somewhat shocking is that they are actually using Freenet 0.3, when I asked them why they answered that the main problem with 0.4 was that we keep obsoleting previous versions which makes it unsuitable for their use at this time. This is a shame as 0.4 contains a number of important security improvements over 0.3. Thus, I think we really need to consider seriously whether we can give our user base some assurances as to how frequently we will increase the last permitted build setting. It seems that given Freenet is working relatively well right now (at least, better than 0.3) we might be getting close. I would further argue that when we do this we should call it 0.5 - we have procrastinated long enough. I would say, however, that one requirement for releasing 0.5 would be to the the node distribution servlet working well, and start encouraging people to use it. Thoughts? Comments? Insults? Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Chief Technology Officer, Uprizer Inc. http://www.uprizer.com/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/
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