Open Source P2P

[Greg Broiles]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 04:08:16PM -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> 
> If P2P agents were distributed with a couple of the major linux 
> distributions (say Red Hat and SuSE) they'd probably achieve 
> critical mass fairly fast (especially if they were set up and 
> configured during install, the way Apache increasingly is).  
> And if they were opensource, they'd probably get into ALL linux 
> distributions within a few years. 
> 
> But so far most of the people doing P2P are trying to make a buck 
> off of it, so with the exception of gnutella, there aren't open-
> source agents.  

The client side stuff for Mojo Nation has been released under the GPL -
that's even a little bit understated, as mostly what they haven't
released is the mint and the metatracker source. You can't start your
own independent Nation, but you can get under the hood of theirs if
you want. 

An overlooked P2P resource is Jabber - it's been explained/marketed as
a cross-platform vendor-neutral chat/messaging system, which is true ..
but it's also a framework for delivering arbitrary XML objects between
not-necessarily-24x7 agents.

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