>>> You don`t educate people by simplifying the truth, you patronize and >>> insult them. >> >> But your description isn`t any more accurate, it merely focusses on a >> different, albeit interesting, property of Freenet, namely the way that >> it disassociates data from the location of that data. I concede that >> this property is somewhat undersold on the website generally, and >> probably deserves a mention in the "What is Freenet?" section, but not >> to the exclusion of what is already there.
> And what property exactly did it not cover? It did not clearly spell out to a reasonably non-technical reader what the difference between Freenet and the two other applications widely perceived to be similar to Freenet are. I would rather acknowledge that Freenet is perceived to be similar to Napster and Gnutella (which is the case whether we like it or not) in order to correct that assumption, than ignore it and allow any misconception to go unchallenged. Ian. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
