Since you keep promoting your site here, I'll go through your reasons one-by-one. Before I was stating the facts, now I'm stating my opinion.
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| 01. The name BearShare. Reminds me of the CareBears. |
What about the name? Is it any less original than the names of the other Gnutella clients?
What about them? You don't even know Michael.
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| 04. Vincent and Michael's top skill is "graphic design". Atleast Michael went to school for that. BearShare has a really kick *** logo doesn't it? |
BearShare's web site and logo look fine to me. Unlike Gnotella and LimeWire, Vinnie doesn't have the financial resources to hire a web designer.
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| 05. Spyware. I am aware you have a choice to install it or not. It shouldn't be there in the first place. I'm assuming its for new users who really don't know any better. |
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| 06. Adware. BearShare 2.2.4 has html viewing built into the client (html banners). I have nothing against making money. I do however have a problem with invasion of privacy (monitoring). With the intergration of adware, spyware, html banners, etc. Gnutella will become commericalized. No one wants thats. I ****ing hate ads. Everyone should know they're privacy issues with ads. Such as cookies and other things that ultimately lead to companies tracking your web usage. That is a fact. |
They generate revenue. Why don't you come up with a better solution?
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| 07. Encrypted packets. Like I said before it shouldn't be there in the first place. I dont see other client's sending encrypted information through the network. |
Vinnie already explained what the encrypted packets are for.
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| 08. Exploit (vulnerability). I wonder why BearShare has been the first client to be exploited. Maybe its because of Vinnie and Michael's top skill. No....I mean their "programming skill". |
Or maybe it's because more people use BearShare than any other Gnutella client and some of those people were pissed off at Vinnie/BearShare so they deliberately tried to find an exploit. All programs have bugs.
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| 09. It only runs on Windows. Only the shittest OS in the world. |
What's your point? Yes, Windows 95/98/ME are shitty; Windows NT/2000/Whistler aren't.
In case you haven't noticed, Gnotella, Gnucleus, Newtella, and ToadNode are Windows specific too.
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| 10. Accept incoming hosts (checkbox). Most new users will un-check the box thinking it "wastes" bandwidth. Which then makes the network become segmented and congested. |
Maybe, but other people uncheck it because their provider doesn't allow incoming connections to servers. I'm one of those people.
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| 11. Unorganized search results. No filtering of results such as file type. No type of grouping for multiple results. |
Which clients do this?
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| 12. Vincent got my damn BearShare fan site shut down. Would you be more happy if I linked to BearShare.com. So you can make some of that money? |
That's because you violated your provider's TOS. You're still infringing on BearShare's copyright by using their trademarked logo.