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Stories · 5

  1. OSS Projects Offer Bounties For Features

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the headhunting-with-a-keyboard dept. · 261 comments
    jtowndot writes "The market for open source developers seems to be heating up. Asterisk, Gnome, Horde, and Mozilla all have bounties for desired features. Recently, Lime Wire updated its wish list to include bounties on open source development work! Similarly, i2p also released a bounty list. Is it time to consider quitting my day job to do open source development full time?"

  2. OSS Projects Offer Bounties For Features

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the headhunting-with-a-keyboard dept. · 261 comments
    jtowndot writes "The market for open source developers seems to be heating up. Asterisk, Gnome, Horde, and Mozilla all have bounties for desired features. Recently, Lime Wire updated its wish list to include bounties on open source development work! Similarly, i2p also released a bounty list. Is it time to consider quitting my day job to do open source development full time?"

  3. P2P Through Firewalls

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the file-in-hand-worth-two-in-the-network dept. · 220 comments
    An anonymous submitter writes "A few stream-through-firewall applications have been announced recently. p2pnet has an interview with Ian Clarke about his new 'Dijjer' program, which promises to reduce bandwidth requirements from HTTP servers by transparently distributing the load. Slyck.com has an article about LimeWire's new version that offers firewall-to-firewall transfers (code here). [Both Dijjer and LimeWire are GPL'd.] There's also been a lot of discussion on the p2p hackers list about reliable UDP transfers."

  4. Limewire Gets Ads, And Accusations of Spyware

    Yro · Privacy · · posted by timothy · from the who-sends-what-to-whom-and-how dept. · 288 comments
    Gerard J. Pinzone writes: "Limewire 1.8 now comes with mandatory banner ads. The reasons given by one of their developers, Christopher Rohrs, for the new ads are that 'Bandwidth alone from www.limewire.com, www.limewire.org, and router.limewire.com is around $10,000 month! And we need to pay developer's salaries--like mine--to keep driving innovation on the Gnutella network.' On top of all this, the banner ad software Limewire is using is "Cydoor". Many users are complaining that this is spyware. Here is a link to the message in the Gnutella forums where this topic is being discussed"

  5. LimeWire Goes Open-Source

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the 6346-or-bust dept. · 180 comments
    The famous Anonymous Coward writes: "I saw over on Gnutella News that LimeWire LLC announced that they're releasing the LimeWire codebase under the GPL license and that they've setup limewire.org as a site dedicated to Gnutella and LimeWire development. LimeWire's codebase is currently being used by two of the most popular Gnutella clients: LimeWire and SwapNut. As far as I know, this is the first time a formerly closed-source file-sharing codebase this popular has been open-sourced." gtk-gnutella is coming along nicely for Linux, but more competition is always better.