I have to agree that Morpheus was easier to set-up than any Gnutella client I've ever used, it gave me more results, and downloading was more reliable because it would almost always find several other sources and do concurrent downloading.

Saying that, I still prefer the Gnutella network, not least because I don't have to use WINE because Qtella is godlike!

I have more control over the way my client interacts with the network, which is nice because I love seeing what's going on, browsing through the pointless but interesting statistics Qtella throws out. I love being able to manually connect, disconnect and block hosts, so I can tweak my hosts list so I am connected to hosts with as many connections as possible. It's so much more *fun* than it working straight away. But then I guess I'm not your average joe user there lol

Personally I think the great strength of any Gnutella client is the Gnutella network. We can't be shut down, and our clients are, mostly, open sourced and under the GPL so we don't have to worry about our company coming under legal fire. And you can't easily download whole albums of a decent, constant quality (unless you've got a great connection), so I'm stopped from ever getting tempted to just download all my music. I love being able to download a few songs from a group I've heard of, and decide on that whether or not to bu ya CD.

If more people could leave their machines on 24/7 as decent nodes, the network would only get better and better And we should be grateful for Morpheus using the Gnutella network, with a gnutella client as the base, because it means we get huge numbers of users added to the network running on a decent engine. Sure they can close-source the interface and try to tweak the client's performance, but they can't do much to the protocol without fully involving the community. Who knows, maybe they'll try to get involved with protocol work and we'll all be a lot better off!