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Dvorak Sees MS Conspiracy Against BitTorrent
kilgortrout writes "Dvorak has an interesting editorial up, where he links the recent stories of alleged 'security problems' and 'spyware problems' bittorent has been having with the recent MS announcement of research into a file sharing app called 'Avalanche'. concluding it's all part of an orchestrated MS disinformation campaign against BitTorrent." From the article: "The problem is that no big company controls it, and Microsoft, asleep at the wheel, let it slip too long to do much about it. So now I suspect Microsoft is playing dirty to discredit the thing. There is no other explanation for the recent series of coincidental stories and events." Especially interesting in light of Bram Cohen's take on the situation.
Dvorak finding something negative with Microsoft? It is truly the end of times.
I'm not a troll, but I play one on Slashdot.
A conspiracy involving Microsoft? No way!
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In the meantime -- anybody have a good adblock setting for his stories?
From The Fine Article:
by early 2005 it was perhaps the dominant protocol on the Net, second only to TCP/IP itself
Wow - TCP/IP, then P2P, and then all those small niche protocols like http, smtp, ftp...
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
WTF is he talking about? Hasn't he been reading the MS press releases and blogs about how MS is settling all it's lawsuits and making friends with everyone. MS is not an evil empire anymore. They told us so.
Yes this is supposed to be funny.
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Microsoft would never announce a product that wasn't in existence, promote it through marketing to the point that a competitor's product dropped in sales as people waited for Microsoft's uber-cool dingy-bopper thingy - then when it's released with half of the functionality promise that the next version will really be better than its competitors while supporting themselves with their monopoly!
I mean, they've never done that before, right?
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Probably the same people that care whether or not 'Gilligan' is going to be voted off the 'island'.
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Aside from the dvorak keyboard that I've recently begun using, I'd have to agree. Though my wrists are much happier now that I'm not using qwerty.
But I digress.
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Given the nature of goatse, it is next to impossible to have more insight than that, and no one wants that much insight.
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Do we hate Dvorak on Tuesdays, or was that only Thursdays?
You obviously are not biased against Dvorak.
I am biased against Dvorak.
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I decided to check up on the Micrsoft's guy's research and discovered that BitTorrent isn't nearly as culpable as HTTP and SMTP. Yes, that's right, a vast majority of todays viruses, trojans, phishing, pharming, adware, spyware, malware, and herpes are all acquired through HTTP and SMTP. Thus, those protocols must actually be to blame and we should stop using them immediately.
Actually, I was trying to be Insightful, not Funny.
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