On 6/8/07, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.ca> wrote:
>
> Other than filesharing, which is distributed for legal reasons, can you
> name a single distributed consumer-visible internet app that has come
> into fashion in the past 10 years? And by distributed, I mean with the
> architecture of email.

Peter, I have to disagree with you here.  We're all using a central
server for this list (piclist@mit.edu).  I think that BitTorrent is
very much the equivalent here.  If you know where to look
(http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/) you can access the BitTorrent
files directly.

I think that Distributed Version Control isn't quite here yet, but I
think it will become much more popular.  Bram Cohen (creator of the
BitTorrent protocol) is working on one, Linus Torvalds (Linux kernel
creator) is working on one as well.  A Wikipedia equivalent could sit
on top of this.

>
> The "tag" in this case is the
> Maildir folder I've saved it to, but really, why shouldn't I be able to
> add a whole pile of tags to something?

I have some gmail invites if you want... :D

Alex
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