okay Guest, then please come back when you have you deluxe client handy!

Meanwhile stop ignoring that good programs need time, a good team and indirect or direct financial support. It does not mean time is money, but it means if there would be money, there would be developer working on it. The mentioned budget is my first estimation when I should code a real good P2P for a big customer... team of 2-3 programmers, artist, testers, also expenses + ISP + homepage + documentation... not alpha/beta, no a finished and tested application after months of work, I would say it's pretty cheap. Half the prize would be okay for a simple client or even less for a early beta. If you ever had coded bigger projects (open source or full paid) you wouldn't run around shouting:

"yeah I have enough spare time and it's so f*cking easy to code a great program alone and all for free!" Ignoring reality, dude?