Well, to the programmers here who are not working on a current client let me suggest that you get involved and take gnutella in a new direction. Use the ideas, optimize the protocol and code, and add some great new features.

I think the most important thing that gnutella is lacking is security in the for of anonimity (sp?). I think the best way to do this, and I have expressed it here, the GDF, ect, is to add encryption to file transfers and to cache a percent of the file transfers. In addition, the cached files would be encrypted. Users would be required to provide at least 100mb or more HD space for encrypted files (or partial files) and may choose to share as much as they want of there own files. They would not be able to unencrypt those files and therefor would not know what they had. The network should not know if the files being transfered are encrypted files or regular shared files. Therefor noone could say who is sharing what. In addition this provides a huge benifit because now all users are sharing something, even if it is only the 100mb of encrypted files. If there was encryption I would of course also have no problem with the program to require that the download and partial folders be shared providing even more resources to the net.

It turns out that we have some very talented people here and it would be wonderful to see them greatly advance gnutella to gnutella2

I guess I am the only one here that doesnt know anything