[Linux-users] BitTorrent 6.x Goes Binary Only

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 8/9/07, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 9, 2007, at 9:27 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>
> > On 8/9/07, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> >> WTF? As seen at http://tinyurl.com/yqvazg:
>
> [BT6 binary only]
>
> >> My $0.25 prediction: BT will change the protocol, also proprietary,
> >> in subtle or not so subtle ways, in less than a year.
> >>
> >> Kurt
> >
> > And I predict a fork of the source, at which point the closed source
> > version won't be used by anyone.
>
> It wouldn't surprise me a bit. Do we really need a forked protocol,
> though?</rhetorical question>

Better than a closed protocol.


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