RE: The P in P2P

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From: Lucas Gonze (lucas@worldos.com)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2000 - 13:06:15 PDT

> If only we had some sort of OpenSource project with a cross platform,
> standards compliant, install in 5 minutes, extensible kind of server.

Not sure if you're being facetious, but that is the goal of the WorldOS
project - to be an Apache for p2p. See worldos.org.

- Lucas

(with apologies for the plug, for those who have heard it before a million
times. Dang, that Cafe Bustello is strong!)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: S. Mike Dierken [mailto:mike@knownow.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 9:36 AM
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> Subject: RE: The P in P2P
>
>
> > Networking is going to get easy. Napster already showed us how.
> > Don't just put a client on the desktop, put a server there too.
>
> If only we had some sort of OpenSource project with a cross platform,
> standards compliant, install in 5 minutes, extensible kind of server. Dang,
> that would be popular! Wouldn't it?
> Or maybe some techno-company will go to the extreme of usability and embrace
> and extend a common GUI operating system to let you right click a folder and
> say 'share this folder'. Dang, that would be easy to use! Wouldn't it?
>
> MikeD
>
>

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