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Shouldn'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.
by xtrumanx 12y ago
Shouldn'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.