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Bram Cohen's Response to Microsoft's Avalanche

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

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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  1. First by JudgeFurious · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just curious about posting first. Turns out it's no big deal really.

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    1. Re:First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's good that you have that attitude, since you came in second...

    2. Re:First by JudgeFurious · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Ahhh, that's because I'm SECOND. Now it makes sense. No rush of excitement as my post lands on target before anyone elses, no wave of euphoria washing over me as I see nothing above my words.

      Missed it by that much.

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    3. Re:First by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      That's good that you have that attitude, since you came in second...
      And to make the defeat even worse, the first 'first post' managed to be on topic as well.
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    4. Re:First by JudgeFurious · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Indeed. I clearly suck at this "First Post" thing. I'm going back to commenting on stories that interest me.

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    5. Re:First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Don't Worry:) Be happy! Its over-rated anyways :):):)

    6. Re:First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Your new here right? or else havent grown pubes yet...

  2. Who is Bram Cohen? by krbvroc1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Dear Mr. Taco, I'd like to suggest that the article summary is not very useful because you fail to even mention who Bram Cohen is. Luckily, I googled and found him on Hot or Not.

    http://www.hotornot.com/r/?eid=GLBQN8G&key=VLS&sid =GL

    For those like me who never heard the name before he is author of Bittorrent.

  3. Re:Vaproware: Par for the course with M$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Tin foil hat comment of the day.

  4. Re:MSR != MS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    On /.? You da crazy one.