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RE: Steemit.com Is Not The Decentralized Platform You Think It Is
In theory, one could write a clean-room implementation of steemd that follows "the protocol". Certainly would like to see the license change though.
I'm not quite technologically enough minded to fully understand that statement. Are you saying that another Steemit could be written that follows the same protocols of the current site (i.e. creating lots of Steem each day to allocate voting rights)?
I can't see the licensing changing for as long as Steemit.com is owned by Steemit inc.
Cg
I'm saying that one could write their own version of "steemd" from scratch, not using any code from Steemit, but it could be a functioning witness on the current chain (that follows all the rules). You could license it with a more free license and Steem would be truely free.
So would that solve the issue of Steem being a protected IP owned by Steemit inc?
Cg
It would be a solution yes. It would take some work, but not necessarily too difficult. I believe graphene is open-source. You could start from there.
Right I see, yes, as far as I can tell the graphene blockchain is open source, so I guess it would be building it up from the ground.
Difficult, but not impossible; in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if someone was doing it right now!
Cg
What makes you think Steemit Inc owns all the IP to
steemd? We have no CLA.I don't know what CLA is, and I said Steemit inc owns the IP to Steem the cryptocurrency.
Cg
@cryptogee Outside of the implementation of
steemd, there is no other IP to STEEM the cryptocurrency. You seem to be confused.Without a CLA, Steemit Inc doesn't even own all the IP to
steemd. There are no rights assignments to Steemit Inc from outside contributors.