>>>>> "IC" == Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
IC> I will ignore the fact that you question my integrity given
IC> that I have spent the better part of the last two years
IC> working on a project designed to help people like you. Don't
IC> do it again.
Speak in haste, regret in leisure. I deeply apologize for questioning
your intentions. After cooling my heels for 36 hours, I'm very sorry
for flaming you in such a stupid way.
Although I strongly disagree with you on tactics, I appreciate
personally what you've done in starting Freenet, and I agree strongly
with your principles.
If I can kind of re-iterate what those principles are, I think they'd
be:
1) Producers and consumers of information should be able to
remain completely anonymous.*
2) The information should be widely available.
I don't need to go over the means Freenet uses to achieve the first
ends. It's the means to achieve the second that we disagree on.
Your idea seems to be to have the fastest, best-connected, most scalable
network possible that still ensures 1).
I think what Brandon and I are saying is that we won't have ANY
network if we don't make a priority of protecting node operators or at
least giving them some ability to protect themselves -- even at the
possible expense of speed or scalability.
I'd like to think there's some compromise space in the middle here.
~Mr. Bad
* Personally I think if there's a conflict here, Freenet should
protect the producer in favor of the consumer, if only because
penalties for producing "bad" information tend be higher than for
consuming it. But that doesn't seem to have been a problem yet and
might just be theoretical; it's definitely a side issue.
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