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The Gnutella War: Free vs. Commercial

Posted by timothy on from the this-too-shall-pass dept.

Anenga writes "Slyck has an interesting interview with Mike of Shareaza regarding Gnutella2 (see older stories), where he expresses his opinions on how Gnutella2 has been recieved within both the user and developer community. The reaction from the top commercial clients, Limewire and BearShare, on Gnutella2 (as seen in the GDF and elsewhere) is that they will not support it because of how it was presented, however, Gnucleus (free, open source) plans to support it and feels the GDF is not seeing the bigger picture. John Marshall of Gnucleus says 'Now it's more like "Free vs Commercial" clients, which [the latter] would rather develop their own next generation protocol (which would probably never happen).' The article in short: Shareaza will keep Gnutella2 open/free, it's already been very successful with a 80-100k growing userbase, Gnutella2 was *not* based on Limewire's GUESS proposal and is in fact very different from it and Shareaza will continue to both support the original Gnutella ('G1') and of course G2."

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  1. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post! Whoo-hoo!

    See? It DOES pay to stay up until 7 am!

    1. Re:FP! by jrs+1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      should have fisted like in quake 3 arena.

      --
      free (as in mp3s) electronic music
  2. SP! by clubin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Second post!

    See, it doesn't pay to stay up till 7 AM. I am damned tired and even bothered to write a lame FP-esque post in this state.

  3. To get around supposed American law by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why don't they host the sites IN SOVIET RUSSIA, away from the grapples of the DMCA?

  4. Third? by iwearnosox · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Weeeeeeee!