The Gnutella War: Free vs. Commercial

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."

Comments

Re:Nice

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm surprised it's still at 0. I thought somebody would waste a mod point on me :D

Re:Bad communications == bad blood

[gudrum]

although your calciferous comment made my eyes sour, I have to admit that your point on (and I quote)

"What it really sounds like is that the commercial entit..."

did appeal to me, because of the occurence of the word "tit" at the end of the sentence.

sincerely yours,

Gudrum