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Originally posted by Telex4
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  |
I think most KDE/QT apps are pretty cool, however I also can't say that I have ever heard of anyone that actually uses Qtella
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Originally posted by Telex4
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. |
Most people I would suspect wouldn't download all of their music, as it it too much of a pain in the butt to find it all, no matter what network you are on, and the quality lacks as compared to a CD.
The record labels would probably get far more sold if they just stopped trying to milk every dollar out of their customers and sold the dam things for a reasonable cost(and got some decent acts instead of S hitney Squeers 7 the Buttlick boyz). So I agree you can test drive a car before you buy, why not ?
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Originally posted by Telex4
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! |
It's not the fact of Morpheus users that are the problem, its that Streamcast didn't fully prepare their community to make the switch, and besides, it's all a money thang to them.. I don't trust Streamcast to clean my toilet, let alone develop any improvements to the client they ripped off without credit to the developer.
The big thing to keeping the Gnutella network healthy is to keep incoming connections going so that the bandwidth is shared all around.