It seems like there is a lot of hostility toward protocol labs (among others doing stuff with “blockchain”). However, everything they build is free and open sou

It seems like there is a lot of hostility toward protocol labs (among others doing stuff with “blockchain”). However, everything they build is free and open source. They’ve gone to considerable length to make their libraries modular and support a multitude of languages. Libp2p is the best peer-to-peer utility I’m aware of (please share if you know of comparable others). This in it self is a massive undertaking. Multiformats is brilliant. A few simple tweaks to the way we form address open so many doors. IPLD is supports json, cbor, protobuffers, git and more. All of which tie together really nicely in to the multiformat addressing and utilized by IPFS. Literally everything they do is open source and free to use how ever you want. If you find a bug, fix it. If want support for something new, propose it. Their projects are frustrating sometimes with regard to understanding the nuances of decisions that were made (such as /p2p vs the overloaded /ipfs) but they’re not building pay per use service like AWS S3, they’re building an open source community and they deserve at least a look at their source code before writing them off.