2010/3/24 elijah <[email protected]> > On 03/24/2010 02:12 PM, Orton AKINCI aka .-_-. wrote: > > this system of wuala you mentioned looks like freenet's distributed > storage system > > As I understand it, the key differences are: > > (1) there is very limited permissions in freenet (you can grant read > access by sharing the content hash key, but you cannot revoke or have > groups with read and write access to a resource). afaik. > > (2) freenet is free software, wuala is proprietary. So, wuala sucks. The > only reason to talk about wuala is to help imagine what kind of > easy-to-use clients can be build (as Blaine said, in the far future). >
On the topic of distributed storage systems and freenet, this is a very interesting high level talk form the co-founder of freenet http://vimeo.com/6614042 He shares some of the lessons he learnt from freenet, and his new technical vision, swarm ... probably not something for GNU Social to leverage now, but I think good background material ... > > -elijah > > >
