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BitTorrent Closes Source Code

An anonymous reader writes ""There are two issues people need to come to grips with," BitTorrent CEO Ashwin Narvin told Slyck.com. "Developers who produce open source products will often have their product repackaged and redistributed by businesses with malicious intent. They repackage the software with spyware or charge for the product. We often receive phone calls from people who complain they have paid for the BitTorrent client." As for the protocol itself, that too is closed, but is available by obtaining an SDK license."

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  1. Re:In related news... by Barny · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not as new as you. (yup, time for all the sub 1k UID to spam replies again)

    As for using miss-worded titles and badly interpreted articles to generate ad revenue, well, I don't know about others, but most of the people I know who read /. use ad blocks.

    Does this site make money now? Last time I heard from the management (around the time they got absorbed by OSDN) they were losing about double what they were making.

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