Moak, use your talents to help us all get rid of the commercial interests and greed on gnutella. Don't give up now!
Post code and patches that don't contribute to their clients.
Make your own client that helps people move away from those clusters. Post code that helps other clients move away from clustering.
Vinnie thinks he can do this, but he doesn't understand we code way better than he does.
And think about that, it's mostly vinnie doing this, he always does this and has been trying to do this since day one.
We got a lucky break when morph made a open source client #1, vinnie can now go suck eggs.
We all used to have to walk on egg shells around him because if he did something nasty (like clustering) we would all be affected by it. NO MORE!
We are just about free of vinnie and the like!
Start your own documentation center and make it the best. RAM is doing a crappy job with his documentation project, please start one and run it for us we need it and someone who cares about docs.
Also remember the small developer doesn't have the time or resources to add all these new protocol ideas all the time so they will pick the best and go with it. It can take a small developer more then 6 months to get something working.
If generic TESTED source code was always available that anyone could use and just plug into their client, and not just some proposal on paper that would help. If the people making proposals would do the work and find out how hard it is to code this stuff, maybe more real gnutella features would be added.
Use your talent to create these proposals with source code.
Sourceforge is free and will host your projects, go check it out.