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Freenet gets $15K boost

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:01 pm
by p2p-sharing-rules
Freenet gets $15K boost

p2pnet.net News:- Ian Clarke's Freenet Project has received a healthy boost that'll keep the rabbit hopping.

John Gilmore, a founder of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions, has donated $15,000 to the Freenet Project.

In April, Freenet released the first alpha version of Freenet 0.7, a new approach to anonymous peer-to-peer adopting a "scalable darknet" architecture, designed to offer a new level of privacy and security for those using the software, at the same time addressing other long-standing issues with Freenet.

The $15K, from came from John Gilmore's “donor advised fundâ€