-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > I see two divergent roads: > 1. Majority of major browser makers embrace freenet and allow for the web > browser to be a full fledged node, serving data off of cache. Of course > this feature can be turned off, but is by default on (hopefully). If this > happens, freenet will be big. > > 2. Major browser makers shun freenet for creating an open port > unnecessarily and dont want to bother with this infant protocol that > doesn't help sales. Then we'll have smaller, open source web browsers > that can be nodes and the major browsers will at most be just clients. > We'll probably have a full lynx node (official or unofficial). > Netscape is a maybe. Mozilla, probably. IE is a wildcard. > If this happens, the state of freenet in 3-5 years is unpredictable. > The node cannot be run from within the browser. The browser is not up long enough. Certainly not long enough for other nodes to discover it to make it at all useful. I'm not against integrating Freenet into a browser, but its only going to work as a client connecting to an external process. Any other way of doing it is just silly.
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