Yeah, FreeWire basically just takes the LimeWire source code, makes minor cosmetic changes and re-releases it, making money off of the spyware.

The real problem with FreeWire is that it doesn't contribute anything while it drains resources from LimeWire. So, to us, if you're interested in seeing Gnutella grow and become the network it can be, stick with LimeWire. If FreeWire starts actually contributing something to the open source effort, then it's different. But given that they're not currently doing so, right now they're just hurting open source and Gnutella. We've tried to contact them to actually cooperate on improving the LimeWire code base, benefitting both FreeWire and LimeWire, but they've consistently ignored my inquiries. It appears they prefer to just keep leaching off of our efforts and making money off ot it!

Thanks for listening to that little rant =).