Mandriva to ship Skype

Mandriva to ship Skype

Posted Dec 22, 2005 8:46 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (guest, #774)
In reply to: Mandriva to ship Skype by Duncan
Parent article: Mandriva to ship Skype

> Incorrect, if you just run a Tor client.

You're right, I should have been more clear. However, I used the term "participate". Being a client doesn't really mean participate...

Anyway, let's be honest: either majority of Tor users run in the server mode or those who do (minority otherwise) need to carry on a lot of "foreign" traffic. The later case (which is the current situation with Tor, as far as I understand) might be ok for an experimental low-profile activities (again, that's what Tor today is), but once you're talking about millions of users, this becomes impractical and/or extremely expensive. The fact is even Microsoft can't afford it for their netmeeting stuff - anything except chat won't work unless you can establish a direct p2p connectivity.

> Now if you had used freenet or gnunet or something similar as your example, I believe you'd have been correct.

Agreed, freenet would be a more straightforward example.

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