Bram Cohen's Response to Microsoft's Avalanche

An anonymous reader writes "Bram Cohen has reduced Microsoft's proposed file-sharing application--codenamed Avalanche--to vaporware, dubbing its paper on the subject as "complete garbage". "I'd like to clarify that Avalanche is vapourware," Cohen said. "It isn't a product which you can use or test with, it's a bunch of proposed algorithms. There isn't even a fleshed-out network protocol. The 'experiments' they've done are simulations.""

Comments

Re:Pointless Article

[ImaLamer]

Well, Bram is a little upset because they offended his baby....

Bram spouting off...

[everphilski]

Microsoft has the ability to look at BitTorrent's code and compare, wheras Bram doesn't have that luxury (Avalanche has yet to be released). Anything Bram says till then is speculation, or, from the tone I got from his BLOG, him having a hissyfit.

Just because he or some of his buddies couldn't get something to work doesn't mean a different team of programmers can't. I think he's scared of being 1-upped by Microsoft. I think most of the open source community is.

-everphilski-

For God Sake

[REBloomfield]

Doesn't this guy have anything better to do with his time? Tick list for the day:
1. Bash Microsoft.
2. Eat Breakfast
3. Bash Microsoft
4. Post to alt.obsessive.nerds
etc etc

Re:Pointless Article

[Anonymous Coward]

Look it up, you fucking retard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

The implication is that Microsoft is doing a lot of talk with little follow through.

Annoying fucks like you need to be shown the fucking door.

Re:Not even close to finished, you say?

[m50d]

Can't speak for AmigaOS, but both BeOS and OS/2 feel far more complete than windows, linux, or OSX.

Re:Not even close to finished, you say?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh shut the fuck up. :P