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+# Related Projects
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+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 [p2p-hackers mailing list](http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers).
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+ * [flud backup](http://flud.org) is an ambitious decentralized data storage grid; released under the GNU General Public Licence v2
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+ * [cleversafe](http://cleversafe.org) 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
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+ * [fluidinfo](http://fluidinfo.com/) 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 [his PhD thesis](http://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/dissertations-and-proposals/terry.pdf).  fluidinfo hasn't released any source code.
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