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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. Re:Who cares that it's vaporware? by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.