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Old December 3rd, 2001
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Default Re: Open Source

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Originally posted by gerardm
LimeWire is open source as much as yours will be. Isn't it a crying shame that there are so many different clients ?

I do not understand why we want/need another client ?

As the LimeWire client is Open Source, why not start off with their client, strip the sypyware and call it a reasonable fork ??

Reasonable as it is allowed, reasonable as it provides a demonstrable added function: no spyware and therefore improved security?

When you do your coding, you send your patches back to LimeWire and therefore you stimulate the convergence to a single client.

Thanks,
have fun
Gerard
Gnutella needs also new ideas... its not enough to improve old ideas... new clients = new ideas!
And I know some good programmers, but they donīt programm in java... LW is written in java...

Morgwen

Last edited by Morgwen; December 3rd, 2001 at 05:54 AM.
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