How does GNUnet compare to other file-sharing applications?
As opposed to Napster and Gnutella, GNUnet was designed with security in mind as the highest priority. We intend on producing a network with high security guarantees. Napster and Gnutella are open to a wide variety of attacks, and users have little privacy. GNUnet is also free software and thus the source code is available, so you do not have to worry about being spied upon by the software. The following table summarizes the main differences between GNUnet and other systems. The information is accurate to the best of our knowledge, but especially for the commercial systems that does not mean much. The comparison is also difficult since there are sometimes differences between various implementations of (almost) the same protocol. In general, we pick a free implementation as the reference implementation since it is possible to inspect the free code easily. Also, all of these systems are changing over time and thus the data below may not be up-to-date. If you find any flaws, please let us
