Yeah, Gnutella was very quickly pulled by AOL. There was no chance to see if Nullsoft would follow through and release the source (which they hinted at with the

Yeah, Gnutella was very quickly pulled by AOL. There was no chance to see if Nullsoft would follow through and release the source (which they hinted at with the name Gnu-...). In the short term there must have been folks unofficially hosting the installer, and probably substituting different bootstrap peers. Quickly the protocol was reverse engineered and reimplemented, thanks to being text based, and maybe also due to users of IDA.