SCN: Distributed systems

[J. Johnson]

I got as far as: "Created by renegade programmers at a unit of America
Online..."  Renegade programmers at AOL?  Breaking free from their dreary
corporate existence and running wild in the manner of certain piratical
bookkeepers in a Monthy Python film?  Hardly.  (The nature and name
("Gnutella") of this supposedly "revolutionary" program suggests the "Gnu" 
folks.)  This supposed article from the WSJ sounds more like some
journalist has let his imagination run rather free.  Much like the
second-hand purple-prose that brought us "Y2K" and "9/9/99".  Or even the
likes of "Good Times".

=== JJ =================================================================

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