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BitTorrent Closes Source Code

Posted by samzenpus on from the taking-my-toys-and-going-home dept.

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. bit3h by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or make 7oud noises

  2. Re:It was only a matter of time.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    don't be a nigger.

  3. Oxymoronic: thief cries thief !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oxymoronic: thief cries thief !!

    Torrents are for stealing !! Get use to it !!

    If you prefer, if you stick your ass out in a gay crowd, expect to be porked sooner or later.

    1. Re:Oxymoronic: thief cries thief !! by martin_henry · · Score: 0, Troll

      Agreed.

      This guy probably thinks that computers are just for porn and that college is just for drinking.

      --
      www.purevolume.com/martyd
  4. OSI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Evidence that companies are starting to see that, like communism and socialism, open source is doomed to fail by the greed and human nature.

  5. Fail62ors?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    won't be standing project faces a set knows that ever pLatform for the JOIN THE GNNA!! I'm discussing the wind appeared

  6. Re:rtorrent pwnz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What a load of crock.