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Any idea how something like this happens? They got at least 22 million euros in funding and seemed to be managed by academics but somehow completely missed the

• wmf 12y ago
  It's regrettably common for academic work to be compared only against other academic work so something can be considered novel or state-of-the-art even if it's worse than shipping products or open source. It seems possible that Tribler is the leading academic P2P system and thus deserving of more grants, which keep it in the lead. (It's also common for open source to ignore competition from commercial software, and for enterprisey products to ignore the consumer market, etc.)
• RayNbow 12y ago
  Keep in mind that the majority of the 22M EUR has been spent in the past on various P2P aspects (e.g., semantic overlay for search, modifying BitTorrent for live streams, modifying BitTorrent for Video on Demand). The anonymity/privacy aspect is quite new for Tribler (< 1 year).