Article about legality of Bittorrent.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/25/1916233&from=rss
Jerry wrote:
Some links:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050324.html
http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2004/12/why-bittorrent-is-important-and.html
Matthew Gertner writes in his blog at,
http://www.allpeers.com/blog/wp-print.php?p=33
"This leads us to Neuberg’s rant. In essence he claims that due to its proprietary nature SwarmStream will never become a standard. Meanwhile, BitTorrent can draw on armies of open source developers to improve it until it catches up technically, at which point customers, given the choice between paying nothing or paying $25,000, will desert SwarmStream in droves. Chapweske, on the other hand, argues that his company can make plenty of money off corporate clients without becoming a standard. Free software advocates are only on his case, he says, because they’re lusting for his technology but can’t afford to license it."
"If industry precedent is any guide, Neuberg has the stronger case. The example of RSS (a ubiquitious news feed protocol) versus ICE (a now forgotten commercial competitor) is apt, and it’s not hard to find other examples of open technologies that have beaten out their closed brethren. Start with the web itself, which easily saw off attempts by the likes of Microsoft and AOL to create “walled gardens” on the internet. Linux has become an immediate threat to proprietary Unix systems like Sun Microsystem’s Solaris. Meanwhile, the threat of open technologies has forced Microsoft, that bastion of proprietary control, to relinguish ownership of VBScript (now ECMAScript) and ActiveX to independent standards bodies"
This opens another question, is VBScript now open source and what about VB6?
-- Ed Howland WDT Solutions, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (314) 962-0766
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