<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:58 PM, David Vorick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.vorick@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.vorick@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>What encourages people to be hosts on distributed file systems?<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div>The key I think is to reward participation in some manner. This is critical, but also I think this participation should be a click to install on any OS very simply. Failure to make this invisible to end users has proven to be a major barrier for adoption. I think to 'cross the chasm' (Moore) projects need to be providing users with better faster and easier services than they get today. </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br></div>Is Tahoe massively scalable and decentralized, or is it just distributed?<br>
</div></blockquote><div>I am not well enough versed to answer this part. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><br></div>And finally, can someone post a list of the most promising/popular distributed filesystems being developed?</blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Distributed_file_systems">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Distributed_file_systems</a><br>
</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><br>David Irvine<div><font color="#888888"><a href="http://www.maidsafe.net/" target="_blank">maidsafe.net</a> </font><br>twitter: @metaquestions</div><div>blog: <a href="http://metaquestions.me" target="_blank">http://metaquestions.me</a></div>
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