At last someone is willing to help the Freenet development guy earn a living
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1271The Freenet Project, which is dedicated to developing anonymizing P2P technology to promote free speech, has received a $15,000 donation from one of the founding members of the online rights group EFF.
“Prior to [the] donation, we were receiving about $2,300 per month, which was barely enough to pay Matthew Toseland, our only paid full time developer,” Ian Clark, architect and coordinator of the Freenet Project, told Slyck.com.
Along with five voluntary developers, Toseland has been working on the Freenet Project full time for the last 4 years. His work relies on donations, so $15,000 will ensure his continued development of the software as it moves towards a beta release of version 0.7.
Its nice to see that the efforts of the few who take privacy seriously are rewarded even if this is not a massive amount of cash its enough to keep the project from stalling.
One day perhaps we will all use such a system as the norm but until then we rely on a few hard working folks to develope the ideas into real life software, this is one of the many deserving cases that are often overlooked as they are not out to make revenue from their work and therefore never obtain any publicity for their efforts.
