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Ughs * no linux version * not open source * announcement is very light on technical implementation Unanswered questions * Does it have any proprietory bitt
by vdaniuk 12y ago
Ughs
* no linux version
* not open source
* announcement is very light on technical implementation
Unanswered questions
* Does it have any proprietory bittorrent protocol extensions?
* Will there be a possibility for open source community to produce alternative clients?
* Will there be firefox-like extensions?
* What about encryption/authorization/security/privacy?
It's frustrating to read about such an exciting concept with the most important details left out. I've searched around but wasn't able to find anything in depth.
Would appreciate a link or additional information from knowledgeable HN readers.
- xtrumanx 12y agoShouldn't be too surprised about the lack of open source. They also didn't open source Bittorrent Sync which was another exciting application of bittorrent.
- vdaniuk 12y agoAbsolutely not surprised. While being sympathetic to ethos of the general torrent community, I don't think that Bittorrent Inc. is one of the good guys. Too closed, too profit oriented, too corporate in their ways. Bittorrent Inc. is both shady AND dilbert-like in its monetization shenanigans (bitcoin minerware for consumer PCs in 2015, really?). Such feat is not easily achieved. Sometimes I wonder if they are a trojan horse for the distributed content delivery community at large, making dumb moves on purpose to tarnish the torrent protocol brand. Hanlon's razor objection noted. So I won't be using maelstorm due to trust issues but I would be really interested in alternative clients.