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.""

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[savagedome]

Hi Bram, just to let you know that Microsoft Software Development Life Cycle works a 'little' different. We market it first, then release it, then develop it and then design it. And maybe, just maybe we might make it work if enough people are using it.

Hope that helps.

Sincerely,
Microsoft

PS: Note that I used maybe twice.

Somewhat patronizing?

[sczimme]

"Unfortunately, [the paper] is actually one of the better academic papers on BitTorrent, because it makes some attempt, however feeble, to do an apples to apples comparison," he said.

Then Mr. Cohen patted Microsoft on the head, gave it a cookie, and sent it outside to play.

Re:Not even close to finished, you say?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, Avalanche sounds like a big snowjob.