[p2p-research] Top 15 Shareable Books

[Ryan Lanham]

Wikipedia is not distributed, but we regularly describe it as P2P.  While I
agree open source and free technologies are allied, personally I don't think
they are essential to P2P.  If they are, then free/open source and P2P are
essentially synonymous except for the distributed part...which is
comparatively a rare trait.  One can't even claim the pirate sites were
truly distributed.

I think Peer to Peer is exactly what is says...from a peer to a peer.  To
me, that is the revolution of Twitter and Facebook.  Whether or not someone
can copy it or whether someone else profits by it are moral issues, but
irrelevant to the idea of peer to peer.

I am a great support of both libre and open software, but those limits are
completely separate from the P2P definitions.

Ryan

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Franco Iacomella <yaco at gnu.org> wrote:

> 2010/1/2 Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com>
> >
> > Depending on how you'd interpret it, I'd say the explosion of Twitter and
> Facebook are the two most important P2P events ever.  Both effectively took
> off this year.
> >
>
> I don't think we can consider Facebook or Twitter as examples of P2P
> tools, since they don't establish distributed networks. Both services
> concentrate information and they are not based on free software
> technologies.
>
> I think P2P is about distributed, open and non central controls.
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> --
> Franco Iacomella
> [ GNU Project ]
>



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