Great response by Gregorio and others to Slyk's grumpy note about reaching 1M.
The summary Slyk used is "A perceived unimpressive network displays impressive numbers" and the article continued the same style.
I laughed at
this description of Gnutella Quote:
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Whether you believe Gnutella is the laughing stock of the P2P community or not, its [sic] hard to ignore that this once ridiculed network has a population of well over 1 million individuals.
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He even quotes Greg Bildson's point that "the count is still understated," which was also announced on the
GDF earlier
Gregorio and others do a better job of setting the record and attitude straight in the comments.
Slyk doesn't note how factors like open protocol, open source, multiplatform, multilanguage and the collaborative nature of the Gnutella Development Group have led to a sustainable model of p2p development. Buggy clients have to compete with free and better clients on gnutella that are better developed, or die.
I've been reading Slyk for a couple of years now, and wondered why its gnutella section was so out-dated and misleading. Looks like it's personal, and will continue.
laughingstock?
ridiculed?
unimpressive?
Never let the facts get in the way of a story.
