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Re:Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms by JoachimSchipper on Monday December 20, 2010 @09:24AM (#2024345)
EGreg - if everyone will have to re-establish trust for each new release, what's the advantage?
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Re:Unhosted - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms by EGreg on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @03:00AM (#2027283)
what is the advantage of magazines having to review every new version of software?

httpc:// would be used for logins and distributing software. People already publish checksums, this would just be an automatic way of verifying every file that the server claims is constant.

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