= Related Projects =

These projects have no specific relationship with our project, but they are similar in some ways and so may be of interest.  We sometimes exchange ideas with the designers of some of these projects, especially on the [http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers p2p-hackers mailing list].

 * [http://flud.org flud backup] is an ambitious decentralized data storage grid; released under the GNU General Public Licence v2

 * [http://cleversafe.org cleversafe] is a company that makes a distributed data storage grid; some of the company's projects are released under the GNU General Public Licence v2

 * [http://fluidinfo.com/ fluidinfo] is a stealth-mode startup that is apparently doing something creative in the realm of distributed storage.  The founder, Terry Jones, is or was a researcher in the field of artificial life and genetic algorithms.  Here's [http://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/dissertations-and-proposals/terry.pdf his PhD thesis].  fluidinfo hasn't released any source code.

 * [http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ mogilefs] is an open source decentralized data storage grid in which files are replicated to a number of storage servers.  It is written in Perl and uses MySQL.  It was written by the folks who made [http://livejournal.com LiveJournal].  The name is an anagram for "OMG files".

 * [http://gnunet.org GNUnet] is an anonymous, censorship-resistant, file-sharing network.