On Monday 04 August 2003 20:27, Gabriel K wrote:

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> Hmm maybe I have missunderstood something about freenet.. I always
> assumed there are *many* freeNet networks..
> Is there just one? I thought it's meant like DC, that anyone can start a
> little network.

It's just like ANY network.. you can have a home network, a enterprise 
network, a global network (like the Internet) and you can even route things 
in and out of those networks.
Freenet is no different. It can be used to share content inside your house 
(and in that case it is not only incredibly slow, but also completely 
unapropriate), it can be used to share data across an enterprise (there's 
still little point to doing it and much better solutions exist) and it can 
be used on a global scale, in a world-wide dynamic environment (where its 
mechanisms to prevent censorship and prosecution become useful and 
attractive).

Having that said, i've tried to use Freenet as a development plataform for 
an entreprise-wide distributed system and found it next to impossible to 
acomplish.
Freenet is not flexible. It is meant for really big networks and that's the 
kind of environment where it performs well. 

And maybe that's how it is supposed to be :)

-- 
Manuel Padilha
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