On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Colin Davis <Colin at sq7.org> wrote: >> Why are you so obsessed with turning us into Sourceforge for Freenet >> apps? If we are successful there could be hundreds of apps, there is >> no reason for us to host all of them - that is rediculous. Let them >> use sourceforge, or google code, or set up their own website.
> For the same reason, I suspect, that Apple is hosting a page of Mac > Applications, and heavily-pushes third-party applications in it's retail > stores, and the same reason that developers around the world are excited > that the iPhone will have a built-in appstore. You may not have noticed, but we have slightly fewer resources than Apple. > Distribution matters. Users don't buy/install a product because of it's > inherent properties, they install it because it solves a need. > Freenet/Fproxy alone don't solve very many people's need, but Thaw, > Freemail, etc are services that people find useful. Exactly, which is why Thaw, Freemail, etc are the apps that will motivate users to use Freenet. Only developers download the JRE, most users get it bundled with Java apps. The same will be true of Freenet, its a platform, most end-users don't want platforms on their own. The solution is *not* to bundle, that is just pretending that Freenet is more than it is. Ian. -- Email: ian at uprizer.com Cell: +1 512 422 3588 Skype: sanity
