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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.""
Definition from dictionary.com for those like me who dont know what vapourware means. /vay'pr-weir/ (UK "vapourware") Products announcedfar in advance of any release (which may or may not actuallytake place). The term came from Atari users and was later applied by Infoworld to Microsoft's continuous lying about Microsoft Windows.
So let me get this straight you are siding with qualified and certified researchers of the creators of the biggest virus spreader in the world. Instead of an opensource programmer who has does nothing but help the internet. get your head out of your ass.
IMAGE VERIFICATION IS EVIL!
That Microsoft has the manpower to turn it into real software is a given.
Like Microsoft Windows? Currently i'm having problems installing certain packages, the MSI installer is broken. I tried reinstalling windows, cleaning the registry, and still doesn't work. My conclusion is that the latest "windows update" screwed it up.
Trust me, you DON'T want to use Microsoft software. No matter how "good" they say it is.
>Avalanche? That's actually what Microsoft will end up buried in, only it won't be snow, it might just be trash in a landfill.
.NET Framework already. ...Oh wait. That's cross-platform.
Unless we all give up capitalism for an agrarian society, not bloody likely.
As we speak, Verizon inc of U.S.A. is working with Microsoft to bring cable TV via FIOS.
If the OS market won't cut it ( extremely unlikely ) then there are a million other avenues Microsoft can take and still be top dog.
As for dated, repetitive, and misplaced, stability issues; to quote a famous programmer...
"Testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up, it is perfect."
-- Linus Torvalds
After FreeBSD, I'll take Microsoft over anything else.
A properly configured and maintained Windows machine with an adequate firewall and antivirus measures is far more productive and reliable than any Linux box, thanks.
( Please leave the "I can run Linux on my 8 year old machine" remarks out. I said productive. Not a toy that boots up and does a few tricks. )
Amazing how hate for the developer company can do more damage to software than any exploit.
If it's from MS, it's immediately half assed right?
So let's just dump the
> "Vaporware is technically correct: you can't download and use Avalanche. But you may be able to in a year or two."
You WILL be able to in a year or two.
-Cassius
P.S.
"Score:2, Insightful"
BULLSHIT!!!
What insight?!
Avalanche IS NOT an operating system. It's a bloody APPLICATION.
How can it be insightful, if the one posting it can't make the distinction???
- Cassius