Comments on: Time to WASTE? http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16375 p2pnet.net - reader powered Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:23:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mike http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16375/comment-page-1#comment-591166 mike Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:31:40 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16375#comment-591166 <a href='http://www.jesusonic.com/' rel="nofollow">Last I heard</a>, Frankel was working on a line of guitar FX pedals - he seems to be a brilliant guy but maybe that doesn't always imply a long attention span. So is WASTE abandonware? It's hard to say. How do you distinguish between an invisible success and an invisible failure? Maybe the internet's full of happy WASTE users, privately chatting and sharing files in groups of ten to fifty, and we just haven't been invited to the party. But somehow I doubt it - people talk, and even if we weren't invited to the party I think we'd know there was a party going on. But even if WASTE hasn't conquered the world it isn't completely dead. It looks like someone's still <a href='http://sourceforge.net/projects/wasteagain/' rel="nofollow">maintaining the code</a>, and there's at least <a href='http://wastekeyexchange.blogspot.com/' rel="nofollow">one public network</a> (<a href='http://waste.vimicorp.com/keys/?p=1' rel="nofollow">maybe two</a>) where you can try out the software with a group of strangers - not quite what WASTE was designed for, but maybe it will encourage a few people to start their own networks. And if it works as intended, we'll never know. ;) Last I heard, Frankel was working on a line of guitar FX pedals – he seems to be a brilliant guy but maybe that doesn’t always imply a long attention span. So is WASTE abandonware? It’s hard to say. How do you distinguish between an invisible success and an invisible failure? Maybe the internet’s full of happy WASTE users, privately chatting and sharing files in groups of ten to fifty, and we just haven’t been invited to the party. But somehow I doubt it – people talk, and even if we weren’t invited to the party I think we’d know there was a party going on.

But even if WASTE hasn’t conquered the world it isn’t completely dead. It looks like someone’s still maintaining the code, and there’s at least one public network (maybe two) where you can try out the software with a group of strangers – not quite what WASTE was designed for, but maybe it will encourage a few people to start their own networks. And if it works as intended, we’ll never know. ;)

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