Is zo te zien ook niet de maat der dingen. Bijvoorbeeld Whatsapp heeft een aantal patenten verkregen maar:
The weird world of software startups: where everything’s made up and the patents don’t matter
WhatsApp is a great example of a startup which put all its energy into developing its product, and did not pursue patent protection. Facebook acquired no patents when it bought WhatsApp. Nonetheless Facebook evaluated the WhatsApp software and user base together as being worth $19 billion, regardless of the lack of patents.
Arguably, patents would not have helped WhatsApp because it created value through rapid growth of a low-cost service to connect users together. Even a competitor who tried to copy WhatsApp would have no traction with users to work with. In WhatsApp’s particular circumstances the strategy of building the best possible product to attract a large user base was superior, and that strategy was extremely successful for WhatsApp.
En als ik terugga naar MaidSafe, voor de grondslagen van het SAFE Network zijn patenten verleend maar:
Why does MaidSafe have patents?
The existing patent system is broken in so many ways, and an alternative is clearly required, but MaidSafe cannot ignore that it exists. Shouting our disagreement from the sidelines won’t do it. Not protecting MaidSafe, the network and the companies that will develop on it, and the people using it, represents a significant risk. Not protecting these stakeholders leaves us all at the mercy of patent trolls and large corporates who have proven time and again that they value money above all else.
Ownership of all MaidSafe patents has been transferred to the MaidSafe Foundation, a charitable not-for-profit organization set up to foster education and innovation.
MaidSafe has released all its code (which the patents cover) under the open-source General Public License (GPL), version 3, which we openly encourage anyone and everyone to fork. This license contains a clause (number 11) that states:
“Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor’s essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version.”
This clause stops the MaidSafe Foundation from legally challenging and enforcing a patent against a person or company using the SAFE Network.
Safenetwork.wiki - Frequently asked questions about the SAFE Network
Dit is een ‘Abstract’ van een van de basisprincipes achter het door David Irvine voorgestelde systeem:
"A method of storing data from a first node on a peer-to-peer network. The method includes creating a public and private key pair for a data item. The method also includes determining a hash value for the public key and assigning the hash value as a user identifier for the user of the node. The method also includes storing the public key within a distributed hash table of the peer-to-peer network. The user identifier corresponds to the key for the public key within the distributed hash table."
Net als iedereen, ongeloof bij Wired in 2014:
A Scottish company, MaidSafe, claims that it has nearly finished building [such] a system. You can imagine our scepticism when a company we’ve never heard of, in the tiny town of Troon, with a terrible name and a 12-minute promotional video told me it had solved one of the most compelling problems on the internet.
“Do they even have the internet in Troon?” a friend asked. “Yeah”, I responded, “maybe even the future of the internet”.
Eind 2015 begrijpt een ander toch weer niet waarom het hele plan maar weinig aandacht krijgt:
As “ad-blocker” programs are increasingly being seen as a threat to content providers, the SAFE Network may hold the key to a viable revenue stream for writers, artists, etc.
Financial institutions may adopt it as a vital asset in security solutions. Grid computing projects such as MIT’s BOINC initiative could begin rewarding volunteers for their donated CPU power. Facebook or LinkedIn might perceive an advantage in moving operations to the SAFE Network… or a savvy Builder could deploy a new, privacy-minded social network that outshines its predecessors.
In essence, MaidSafe is attempting to build a better internet on top of our existing internet, one which could conceivably even supplant it at some point.
Tegelijkertijd werd bij Wikipedia voorgesteld om het hele MaidSafe-artikel maar te wissen.
Zo gezegd zo gedaan, de tekst daarvan staat nu alleen nog online bij het Internet Archive:
History
David Irvine began work on MaidSafe in 2006. He raised $5 million for the project over the next year, eventually working with a team of 14 people. The company is based in Troon, Scotland.
In April 2014, MaidSafe used a crowdsale where it sold 400 million Safecoins (10% of all Safecoins that can ever be produced, through another token call MaidSafeCoin). It raised over $7 million in Mastercoins and Bitcoins. The value of the Mastercoins (half of the currency) subsequently declined, leaving the total from the sale at $5.5 million, short of the hoped-for $8 million.
The company is running test networks to prepare the software for an as-of-yet unscheduled official release.
Maar ik weet het goedgemaakt, hou je maar aan mij vast, ik geloof er wel in. Het hele verhaal is simpelweg te mooi om niet waar te zijn.
Anders dan bij Wikipedia, het staat hier allemaal gewoon online:
SAFE Network
SAFE stands for Secure Access For Everyone. The SAFE Network is a secure data storage and communication platform, owned by users and controlled by no one. Instead of relying on servers that are operated by companies and can be shut down or censored, SAFE doesn’t have a central authority that can control the content on the network.
By installing and running the SAFE Client, content and services are encrypted and automatically distributed over the network so they can’t get lost. Anyone can join by installing the SAFE software and creating an account free of charge. No personal information is shared with the network unless you explicitly publish it.
Gaat heen en vermenigvuldig het aantal deelnemers …