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Originally posted by goldenrod
Who could we depend upon to create such a dream application? Is it in the interest of the developer? Is it more realistic to hope a fellow user could "enhance" an already established program? What incentive, if any, would be interesting enough for any of them to want to develop a program with the options we need?
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goldenrod!
Ever since Napster happened the ideas and techniques of p2p programming have been spreading among a growing group of programmers, many of them active and enthusiastic p2p users who are willing to contribute some of their skill and spare time to the common good of the p2p revolution. There are several people with programming skills on this forum alone, and there must be hundreds of other similarly p2p-oriented groups and communities around the world with their own programmer members. These are the people who will take p2p to its next phase. We have already learned as a community that we can only expect that much from the commercial p2p ventures - and there is always a price to what we get from them, in form of advertising or spyware. If we want more features without any of the commercial crap there is nobody but ourselves that can provide it. The exchange of experiences and ideas that we do on this forum serves this purpose well - we just need patience to wait for these ideas to gradually get realized, evaluated, accepted and finally implemented to non-commercial, community-oriented p2p applications.
- tg
