Is it your intent to destory freenet? What is so wrong with having  
freenet as a FREE as in speach and as a place to freely put up content? 
Why do you wish to introduce micropayments? I hope your idea is burned, nuked, and 
buried - itis stupid and would destroy what freenet has created, if you 
cannot see that (and I think you can see that CLEARLY and I believe it 
is your intend to do harm to freenet hoping the developers will tag along) 
then you are most definitly blind, delusional, and a happily punctured 
windows user.

On Fri, 5  Jul 2002, Jim wrote:

> In the micropayment scheme I'm thinking of, each node would determine the 
> prices it would charge for insertions and retrievals.  There would not be a 
> central organization that would charge people to use freenet.  There wouldn't 
> even have to be a single 'bank' since various 'currencies' could be exchanged 
> freely.  Also, people wouldn't be required to use cash or credit cards to 
> accumulate these currencies.  They could simply set up a node and collect 
> fees for insertions and retrievals.  Then they could use that to make 
> insertions and retrievals from other nodes.  In short, no one would be forced 
> to use micropayments, there need not be a single point of failure and 
> anonymity should not be compromised.
> 
> > I'm no core developer, but I do have an option on micropayments. I think
> > they'd be a great way to raise revenue, and they might help move Freenet
> > development forward a little bit. Also, I'd be willing to pay something
> > (aka, donate) and I'm thinking about doing so. However, not everybody has a
> > lot of money to spare, and I think that the contributions people are giving
> > that don't include money are already doing a great service for Freenet.
> 
> > In English, I don't think that micropayments are a good idea if they are
> > mandatory. However, I think that Christopher's idea of having two divisions
> > of Freenet, one for the general public, and one for contributors, might
> > work, and is at least worth a shot to see if it works. I'm willing to give
> > it a try. Maybe.
> 
> > However, I think that it's important to keep Freenet free. As in gratis. At
> > least to use. I think there should still be a public Freenet, and I think
> > that the people who run micropayment nodes should still contribute some of
> > their node to the general public Freenet. It shouldn't all go to some sort
> > of pay network.
> 
> > I think that money would make more people want to run a node, but I think it
> > would make less people want to use the network. And I'm not sure that
> > micropayments are necessary for the network to actually work.
> 
> > Again, I'm willing to give it a thought, and maybe a try.
> 
> > Wesley.
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