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And the award goes to… Azureus.

Azureus won the award for “most popular open-source software” This is the result of the first annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. Azureus is one of the most active and most downloaded project on SourceForge. It seems that P2P software is popular, because Emule finished in second position.

There were different categories ranging from best “database software” to best “VOIP software”, Azureus was voted to be the best piece of software in the prestigious “overall” category.

Btqueue, another BitTorrent based piece of software won in the clustering category.

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