I originally posted this when thinking aboout how things like magicdev and napshare are strictly GUI programs. I also read an article saying that the only real problem with gnutella types of programs is that the server only works while people are logged in. This is the Windows way of doing things, because it is a fairly limited OS. I would rather see Windows programmers start to do make real servers instead of this type of program being used more in Linux/*BSD.

However, Napshare-like programs do have a bit of a reason to be linked, because they retransmit information found as a client. Maybe the way to
do it would be to have a non-GUI client+server
daemon, and a separate GUI control interface.