Re:Show HN: Ouroboros – A Decentralized Packet Network
by dstaesse on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @07:30PM
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I'm sorry to disappoint, but we are not looking at commercializing...
Ouroboros will remain free "as in beer" and free "as in freedom".
I do take "spiffy" as a compliment :)
Re:Show HN: Ouroboros – A Decentralized Packet Network
by hardwaresofton on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:29PM
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> I'm sorry to disappoint, but we are not looking at commercializing... Ouroboros will remain free "as in beer" and free "as in freedom".
Aaaaand you've just gained me as a lifelong fan (I mean I was already very interested) -- that's a big stand to take, and I appreciate that you guys refreshed the site & marketing materials just to get it in front of more people. I'm not in any way disappointed by your choice not to commercialize, quite the opposite in fact (as long as you guys are personally fine financially and feel comfortable contributing this work to the public domain).
You'll hear from me when I build something worth mentioning with Ouroboros!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fH23l45984
The ideas take a while to sink in but @ 1.5/2x speed it should be a quick watch and you can slow down if you hear something you like.
Hopefully they get their "marketing act together" but also it's probably unreasonable to expect that from what was once a research project and is now very early software (that I assume they are trying to commercialize/market somehow, hence the spiffy new site).