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BitTorrent, Inc. Acquires uTorrent
ColinPL writes "BitTorrent, Inc. has taken the next step — the acquisition of uTorrent. In a joint announcement made today, the two firms have publicly solidified the merger. 'Together, we are pleased to announce that BitTorrent, Inc. and uTorrent AB have decided to join forces ... BitTorrent has acquired uTorrent as it recognized the merits of uTorrent's exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community. Bringing together uTorrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent's expertise in networking protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision will be the best BitTorrent client.'"
Perfect? It's still critically lacking in the license and published source code departments. Hopefully Cohen et al will resolve these issues.
Now THAT programmer is someone who cares about quality.
Yes, a closed-source Windows-only P2P program with an inbuilt version of Tetris. That's quality, all right.
God forbid someone should want to make money from software hurrr, better to make it OSS so someone else can make money from it as soon as you make a tiny change that people do not like...