software WASTE

[pynchonoid]

[...]  You've got to give it to the NULLSOFT guys:
they know just         how much to write, and how much
to leave to strangers. Just         like the original
Gnutella, WASTE is mostly just a protocol         with
a bare-bones UI hanging off it. Like Gnutella, it     
   suffers from having being developed in isolation:
there are         weird edges to it (the load
balancing is cranky; the         random-number
generation might be buggy; the routing metric        
looks, to our untrained eyes, nigh-fuxxored). Like
Gnutella,         it nonetheless *works*, which is
more than your        
fancy-schmancydistributed-anonymous-reputation-system,
         daydream believer. It doesn't work very well
- but that         merely means that, even as we
write, thousands of coders are         cranking out
improved clients and protocol extensions that        
will breathe more life into WASTE than Nullsoft ever
could.         Conspiracy theorists might also wonder
whether Nullsoft's         withdrawal of the source
after the Slashdotting was planned         to give
WASTE an Gnutella-like illicit cachet: more        
social-engineering of the P2Punks? Or was it, timed as
it         was on the fourth anniversary of AOL's
purchase of Nullsoft,         and the day when AOL
announced they were jumping back into         bed with
Microsoft, yet another fuck you to the Man? 
http://www.dhorrocks2003.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/[...] 


from:
<http://www.ntk.net/>
NTK
<*the* weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the uk>
2003-05-30


         

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