An anonymous reader writes: What do you do when you fork your project and the users shun the new application and keep using the old one? The Freenet Project has had an ongoing problem where many of the users have kept using the older 0.5 network because it was stable and had Open Net while the new 0.7 network was slow, buggy, and difficult to connect to.
The Freenet developers Zothar and Nextgens decided that they should attack and destroy the old network instead of making the new network more stable and easier to use. The following is an IRC chat between two of the Freenet developers.
[20:12:25] Zothar_Work> I need to talk about bringing 0.5 down with toad
[20:12:38] Zothar_Work> I've got some ideas on how to do it
[20:12:52] that would definitly shut up 0.5 trolls, wouldn't it ?
[20:14:08] nextgens: yeah, that would probably do it
[20:14:13] censoring at hand?
[20:14:24] it's not about censoring
[20:14:30] I find it interesting that Frost on 0.5 doesn't seem to be having the board spoofing problem 0.7 does
[20:14:36] it's about prooving that 0.5 has to be replaced :)
[20:14:43] FuriousRage: vulnerability demonstration
[20:15:19] that would be indirect "settling"
When asked to condem this action, the primary developer Matthew Toseland (Toad) remained silent.
