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A bit of background on µTorrent, it was written by a guy named Ludvig Strigeus (creator of well-known FOSS projects like OpenTTD and ScummVM), and was free albe
by gillianseed 12y ago
A bit of background on µTorrent, it was written by a guy named Ludvig Strigeus (creator of well-known FOSS projects like OpenTTD and ScummVM), and was free albeit proprietary, with no adware/spyware but simply a lean (in resources) yet featurefull client which made it the de facto bittorrent client on Windows.
He then sold µTorrent to Bittorrent inc (and went on to co-create Spotify), and from there on µTorrent has gone downhill as Bittorent inc are going for bundling adware/spyware in order to get a return on their investment.
- userbinator 12y agowith no adware/spyware but simply a lean (in resources) yet featurefull client I remember when it first came out it was the smallest client available, and that's why it gained a huge following - it was unintrusive and required no installation. uTorrent 1.1.1: 82KB uTorrent 3.4.2: 1.66MB I have a feeling that most of that 20x(!) size increase is not due to any new features in the core torrent functionality. In fact, it appears to be the same size as the official BitTorrent Inc. client... I haven't looked carefully at the code, but just from this comparison I'd bet that it's not really uTorrent anymore but the BitTorrent client with a different UI.
- ludde 12y agoThat's correct! (Yes I read HN)
- gillianseed 12y agoHeh, hej Ludde!