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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020709/ap_on_hi_te/kan_profile_2 ......................... A pioneer of the technology that took Internet file-sharing far beyond Napster, Gene Kan became something of an unofficial spokesman for one of the hottest software developments to survive the Internet boom. On Tuesday, the 25-year-old Kan was mourned by colleagues after being found dead of what authorities said was an apparently self- inflicted gunshot wound. (...) The Gnutella protocol � a set of computer instructions for a peered network � was first posted on the Internet by Nullsoft, a software company owned by AOL Time Warner. Kan got his hands on a downloaded version of Gnutella and began, along with other developers, to fashion it into a user-friendly interface with various improvements on the performance of the software. Kan quickly became the outspoken, lead proponent for the further development of Gnutella-based applications. (...) "There is no head to the Gnutella dragon," Kan told The Associated Press in 2000. After that interview, Kan quickly became the ad hoc spokesman for Gnutella's development during file-swapping debates surrounding Napster. Kan acknowledged that some unauthorized files were being traded via the Gnutella network. "How users make use of it, I hate to say it's not our problem, but it really isn't," Kan said. The simple Gnutella protocol spawned a legion of file-sharing programs that remain popular today. The programs LimeWire, BearShare and Phex all make use of the Gnutella engine. ......................... ---> jab | commie | http://commie.oy.com "Boredom - the desire for desires." --- Leo Tolstoi ................................. To find out, what address you were using, when joining MP3-Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/whocommie.html
