Re: Facts,Facts,Facts I asked moak to explain his post and his great ideal for gnutella which he spoke of. Which im still waiting...
Anyways your post is exactly what im talking about. You just posted bashed programs and the network today.. and on topics that dont concern you. Like "spyware" worry about your own box. Many people know about spyware but just dont care.
Now about your points..
What could be done? maybe there are some points:
- building up a small community of developers who decide equally which features are good and which not.
What about programs like xolox and others that dont or wont partcipate?? And how do you stop programs from implementing "bad" features on a open network? Also there is allready a community built but a small group of people here like yourself, moak and others seem content in splitting it up and tearing it apart.
- dividing client developing and network developing a bit more: That would mean that in the end all clients speak the same language and are 100% compatible to each other.
100% compatible is impossible. Your assuming that developers will agree with each other 100% of the time and that every developer will implement every proposal 100% of the time even though that may not be the direction they want to take their program. Over time if a program doesnt support major advances then they could get left behind because legacy versions cant be supported forever.
- creating 2 nets: a huge User.net, the normal net...
and a small Developers.net, where developers can test out changes and new ideas
Good idea but how will the developer net get enough users on it to sustain the net and be large enough to accurately portray the current network.. Its not that easy. There are projects like gnutella simulators which can accomplish this.
The GDC was - in my opinion - a step into the right Direction, but it seems that everyone has given up and left the whole gnutella devloping
Whats the GDC? If you mean the GDF then it think your wrong. Look at the second paragraph of the next question.
To come to a conclusion, my opinion is, that all not-commercial developers should leave the GDF and meet at another place to discuss and decide equally (e.g. Polls) what to do.
There is no reason to do that since the GDF is an open and free place for everyone started by gnutellahosts.com and a idea like that really goes against what the GDF is suppose to be. It allready is a neutral place if some programs dont partcipate then thats their decision they can live with it.
Polling to see what is done i dont think should be used on a regular basis because its slow, and because its an open network people wont change their mind because the poll says otherwise. Being an open network is really gnutella's greatest strength and greatest weakness..
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Last edited by KathW; April 21st, 2002 at 05:10 AM.
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