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--- EVAL 2001/06/19 17:13:40     1.7
+++ EVAL 2001/06/20 12:28:22     1.8
@@ -3,25 +3,25 @@
 
 o Spread, http://www.spread.org/
 
-  Spread is a sophisticated framework for distributed computing. The
-  software itself is written in C and uses a design very similar to
-  SRPC's: It is split into a permanently running daemon and a link
-  library containing interface routines to that daemon to the
-  programmer. The daemon will maintain so called "groups", which
-  computers can join and leave. Furthermore the daemon provides group
-  communication services based on TCP, UDP or Multicast-UPD. Via this
-  communication services, the actual remote procedure calls are
-  implemented.
+  Spread is a sophisticated message passing framework. The software
+  itself is written in C and uses a design very similar to SRPC's: It
+  is split into a permanently running daemon and a link library
+  containing interface routines to that daemon for the programmer. The
+  daemon will maintain so called "groups", which computers can join
+  and leave. Furthermore the daemon provides group communication
+  services based on TCP, UDP or Multicast-UPD. There is no actual RPC
+  functionality available, but implementing such a system on top of
+  Spread would be relatively trivial.
 
   The software seems to be actively maintained, well-written and
   documented, but unfortunately the following drawbacks kept us from
   using it:
 
-    - Spread's license currently prohibits any commercial use.
-      But according to the authors (as of April 2001) they are providing
-      special license exceptions for Open Source projects and working on
-      moving Spread to a commercial split of from their University and
-      then releasing Spread under a real Open Source license.
+    - Spread's license currently prohibits any commercial use, but
+      according to the authors (as of April 2001) they are providing
+      special license exceptions for Open Source projects and working
+      on moving Spread to a commercial split of from their University
+      and then releasing Spread under a real Open Source license.
 
     - It is not possible for peers to communicate without the daemon.
       (RSE: I'm not sure about this. If I understood the Spread guys

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