I should have been more careful in that last comment! Obviously others outside LimeWire--notably Vinnie Falco of BearShare--have contributed much to the Gnutella network since the first generation of clients. But realize that many of the of the most recent improvements to Gnutella were spearheaded by LimeWire. Take the "0.6" handshake mechanism, ping-pong caching, and XML metadata, for example. And we have many more exciting proposals that are very close to release, most notably supernodes. This helps the entire Gnutella community--not just LimeWire.

We've put a lot of money into helping Gnutella and plan on pushing the protocol forward in the future. We're hoping our users will support this.