[Tech] Distributed Drive and Increased Usage

[Ian Clarke]

2008/5/13 Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org>:
>  Possibly, however bundling Freenet with anything is problematic

Being bundled is one of our best hopes for getting Freenet widely
deployed, we need to be encouraging it, not looking for reasons not to
do it.  Freenet is a platform on which we want people to build apps.
The best way to encourage that, given that Freenet isn't already
widely deployed, is to make it easy for those apps to bundle Freenet.

> , because of  the overhead (in every sense):
>  - Exchanging noderefs.

Not necessary if they use opennet - the app that bundles Freenet would
be responsible for encouraging the user to behave correctly.

>  - CPU/disk/memory usage. (CPU usage is low, memory usage will improve
>  significantly in 0.7.1).

If the user wants to use Frost/FMS/whatever, then they need Freenet.
Whatever overheads Freenet has are inevitable, although we need to
work to reduce them.  Its certainly no reason to discourage people
from bundling Freenet.

>  - The political/ideological overhead is IMHO rather significant: Your computer
>  could have encrypted child porn / encrypted terorrist training manuals /
>  encrypted Tibettan photographs etc on it.

It would be the responsibility of the app bundling Freenet to explain
these things to the user.

Ian.

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