Re: [Mldonkey-users] Enough is enough! Please read this!

[Taros666]

Here we go again...
Another thread with a lot of ranting and bitching about the 
Edonkey-Network. So you get my 2 cents as well.

MLdonkey-users have been accused to ruin the network for a long time, 
but the network was dieing just before the first release of mldonkey. 
Some time ago I wrote about the big problem: the donkey-network doesn't 
scale well! I had DL at 80 kb/s as long, as the network had not more 
than 30000 Users. As the network grew, the network got slower and 
slower. Yes, mldonkey was aggressiv in the beginning and that gave back 
a normal DL-speed for mldonkey users BUT it was never been done 
intentionally, it was because the specs for the network were not available!

The network is still pretty slow, and it really doen't matter what 
client you are using (I tried emule, offical edonkey (win and lin) and 
of course mldonkey). The advantage of emule is that they created a 
smaller network inside of the edonkey-network! They block other clients 
(via credit system and removing aggressiv clients) and so they have a 
smaller more efficent network.
But that is a bad thing, because they remove a lot of good and highly 
available clients - the *nix/*BSD Clients. And as the "emule-threat" is 
not enough, there is that big monster lungdumm (intentionally written 
wrong).
I see a bad future for the donkey-network...and I'm pretty sad about that...

It's true, that a lot of people don't get the idea of Free (with capital 
"F") Software and that they don't get the idea of p2p as well. That is 
another sad thing...
So many people don't bother, that they use cracked or ripped Software on 
their bad beta-software called windows. I don't want to say, that all 
Linux users are better. They are not! But the majority of *nix/BSD-users 
know what a community is. They know that you have to give to get. That 
you have to care and share to get something back. And you get a lot back!

I really hope the future will give as a nice, scalable, big, secure, 
Free network where it is fun to share...

Taros666

P.S. Free (with capital "F") dosen't mean that you get something for 
free - it is more about freedom of Software...