Comments on: Will BitTorrent Open Source uTorrent?

By: alt

alt — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:19:30 +0000

For those seeking a true cross platform NOT based on java solution (lightweight), it’s called Deluge, gtk based, works well on the 3 main OS’es, I use it on them all. Supports uTorrent exchange, encryption, etc. URL: http://www.deluge-torrent.org/

By: diktaytor456

diktaytor456 — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:43:40 +0000

ÂµTorrent is fine the way it is,it should stay a closed source

By: ZiRo

ZiRo — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:29:17 +0000

I hate commercialisation. Full Stop.

By: Heliologue

Heliologue — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:48:54 +0000

KTorrent, like a lot of KDE apps, will probably make the jump to Win32 once KDE4 is released and all the requisite libraries are ported. Amarok is going in the direction, I believe, and possibly K3b, if the tools that serve as its backend get ported as well.

I think we can expect that uTorrent will pretty much stagnate now: Ludwig is no longer going to develop the client; instead, employees at BitTorrent, Inc. will. If anything declares their intent, it’s this: the great mind that made arguably the best torrent client stops making it, and some chumps whose other offering—the reference client—is pathetic at best will do little but give it “features,” by which I mean commercial bloat.

It’s like bait: they’ll offer uTorrent, but only their newly modified version of uTorrent. Because it’s closed source, users will have no option but to either find an old version or just take the new one + bloat.

There are plenty of projects that currently show a lot of promise, but none of them completely cross-platform and none of them with the same rapid development as uTorrent.

By: Yansky

Yansky — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:09:33 +0000

Since Ktorrent is so similar to uTorrent (and is already open source), it would probably be easier for someone to just port Ktorrent to windows.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:02:42 +0000

[quote comment="28696"] Bittorrent previously stated that they want to develop a closed source version of their own client, presumably in order to implement IPS-based content cachching ...[/quote] The "Cache Discovery Protocol" is already implemented in the (open source) mainline client, and will probably be included in uTorrent as well. uTorrent will stay closed source, but I think this has more to do with ka-ching than caching.

By: Beavis

Beavis — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:59:47 +0000

Janko-

Did you mean caching, or ka-ching? Either way…..

By: Janko

Janko — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:36:17 +0000

I think it’s highly unlikely that Bittorrent will release the ÂµTorrent source code. Bittorrent previously stated that they want to develop a closed source version of their own client, presumably in order to implement IPS-based content cachching:

http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-165.html

And, yes, content caching is the one thing that Bram mentioned for the future of ÂµTorrent …