WASTE

WASTE Logo    05 Jun 2003 | Programming

"WASTE is a software product and protocol that enables secure distributed communication for small (on the order of 10-50 nodes) trusted groups of users."

"WASTE is designed to enable small companies and small teams within larger companies to easily communicate and collaborate in a secure and efficient fashion, independent of physical network topology."

WASTE also seems to have created a permanent rift between programmer Justin Frankel (one of the authors of WinAmp and his employer Nullsoft (owned by AOL Time Warner) who pulled it. Here is my mirror of WASTE

On 10 Jul 2003, c0re wrote:

Trying to get waste imported into visual studio.net, any suggestions?

On 13 Jul 2003, Thomas Baker wrote:

When you say "imported" what do you mean - you mean you want to use it as a tool from VS.Net or that you want to compile it under VS.Net. Did you try it? What happened?

On 14 Jul 2003, c0re wrote:

Well I was trying to get it to compile correctly under VS.Net, I finally did after I grabbed a newer version from the sourceforge waste site and hacked it a bit. Wish i knew C++, stupid VB.NET.

On 18 Jul 2003, Thomas Baker wrote:

Yeah, I think VB is a dead language now. Microsoft are making a brave show of supporting it but I think they'd rather everyone wrote C# and so would I. C and C++ retain their virtues of speed and large established code bases and techniques but VB now it is all OO has got nothing over C# surely?

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