[firethief]

I want to like it for the cleaner architecture, but this site isn't helping me find reasons to do so. The FAQ seems to be the only place that "Why would I want this" is considered, and they evade a real answer. I'm sure the referenced paper supports that it's theoretically cool, but I already believe that. The only concrete benefit I see proposed is that it has a simpler API, but considering that they've punted on name resolution (for now) and async is a WIP, the API seems more complicated than BSD sockets--which everyone has experience with, has support in every language and framework, and has endless learning materials available. For a project whose value depends on a networking effect, I'm not compelled to invest energy in it until they get their marketing act together enough that I think other people might want it too.

[hardwaresofton]

Please check out the FOSDEM video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fH23l45984

The ideas take a while to sink in but @ 1.5/2x speed it should be a quick watch and you can slow down if you hear something you like.

Hopefully they get their "marketing act together" but also it's probably unreasonable to expect that from what was once a research project and is now very early software (that I assume they are trying to commercialize/market somehow, hence the spiffy new site).

[dstaesse]

I'm sorry to disappoint, but we are not looking at commercializing... Ouroboros will remain free "as in beer" and free "as in freedom".

I do take "spiffy" as a compliment :)

[hardwaresofton]

> I'm sorry to disappoint, but we are not looking at commercializing... Ouroboros will remain free "as in beer" and free "as in freedom".

Aaaaand you've just gained me as a lifelong fan (I mean I was already very interested) -- that's a big stand to take, and I appreciate that you guys refreshed the site & marketing materials just to get it in front of more people. I'm not in any way disappointed by your choice not to commercialize, quite the opposite in fact (as long as you guys are personally fine financially and feel comfortable contributing this work to the public domain).

You'll hear from me when I build something worth mentioning with Ouroboros!