We (Hyphanet) are fully volunteer-driven now. #Hyphanet has been working pretty well for the past two decades and is continuing to move forward. Features:
There is nothing there about FUTO forcing them to stop focusing on anonymization. I’d be careful to draw such conjecture. Besides, this is one reductive take from one party of a contentious split.
Giving tens of thousands of dollars to great orgs that have real free software licenses and ask for nothing in return? I’m glad we have futo.
I’ve heard it said they forced Freenet to stop focusing on anonymization, which caused a fork and name change of the original Freenet to Hyphanet.
Link or didn’t happen
https://floss.social/@Freenet/114439179072545405
Site doesn’t load. Here’s a link to the article
https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html
But it doesn’t say anything about futo
Here’s the toot:
@light The funding by FUTO sadly led to the forced renaming: https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html
That new project does not have privacy as a goal.
We (Hyphanet) are fully volunteer-driven now. #Hyphanet has been working pretty well for the past two decades and is continuing to move forward. Features:
⇒ https://www.hyphanet.org/ @caten
There is nothing there about FUTO forcing them to stop focusing on anonymization. I’d be careful to draw such conjecture. Besides, this is one reductive take from one party of a contentious split.