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Re: Open Source -- Counterexamples
Author: Dennis Peterson Posted: 7/20/2000; 2:22:26 PM Topic: Open Source -- a world onto itself Msg #: 18824 (In response to 18797) Prev/Next: 18823 / 18825
Freenet -- GPL distributed fileserving with anonymity, scalability, and no central servers at all. Also Gnutella, which is less anonymous and probably less scalable but currently working. Probably a lot of software in the earlier days of the net, even before people like Stallman made it official -- bringing up another example, Emacs, which Neal Stephenson says "for a professional writer, outshines all other text editors like the noonday sun outshines the stars."
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