If Freenet were a C program, it would have been picked up by all the Unix package collections by now, and would be just as easy to install as lynx or mutt. Since it's written in Java, it's a portability nightmare, and only a small inner circle has gotten it almost-working. Java's decoy claims of portability have in effect killed the Freenet, and dragged the Freenet architecture down to the same level of broken fantastic promises that Java makes. ``The mythical Freenet about which we have heard so much.'' --Miles Nordin