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

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 8/10/07, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 10, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>
> > On 8/9/07, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> It wouldn't surprise me a bit. Do we really need a forked protocol,
> >> though?</rhetorical question>
> >
> > Better than a closed protocol.
>
> That's my point. The protocol is already closed. But I suppose
> your point is that the BT folks have pretty much made themselves
> irrelevant to the free source code world.

Originally, it wasn't closed.  All of the '3rd party' torrent clients
out there are based off of the open source implementation.

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