I just want to chime in that we should all try to be as friendly as possible about all of this (echoing Carlo) -- it's already a little pathetic that we all spend so much time on this forum (I know I've posted on several Saturday nights!), but let's not let it degrade to personal attacks on each other, ok?

From my perspective, what we're talking about is too important -- gnutella and it's success or failure is too important -- to allow personal differences to consume all of our energy.

Regarding the spyware issues, I just want to point out that all of the spyware is optional on the install, so the analogy above does not really work aside from the good point by an earlier contributor mentioning that you are being given the house for FREE! Cydoor is not an optional install, but Cydoor does not collect any information about you -- it's just an ad-engine. There's a helluva big difference in my mind. This is more like buying a TV for your house (displays ads) -- a pretty common practice in my experience =).