Exactly, give it a name: Bearshare fans started it, tolerated from Vinnie. BS fans trashing other clients were often made a VIP (very important person) or a moderator on bearshare.net. Don't forget Vinnies position: badmouthing anything that isn't Bearshare. Doesn't sound like a improvement for me.

BS/LW do not strongen the network, they try to control the network and make it a BS/LW network. Meanwhile they disadvantage other clients, create obstacles, puting fuel on the fire of clients badmouthing, discourage and prevent other developers and spread serious scumware to pay their own bills. That's the problem.

Bearshare now includes Cydoor. They have announced there will be a PRO version, like Limewire, without any kind of 3rd party software

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/article.../04272002a.php

they never get enough. make money with spyware, make more by selling a spyware free version. I'd like to know which greedy idea comes next.

Bearshare lite?

Morgwen

Saeger wrote on Zeropaid:

"I remember it was only a year ago when Vinnie was absolutely EMPHATIC that he would NEVER charge for BearShare (in any form) - the company is even named FreePeers, Inc. [...] I would link to the relevant bearshare.net posts, but they were all conveniently wiped out in a mysterious screwup a while ago."

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/article.../05082002e.php

"LimeWire, Gnucleus, and others treat all nodes on the Gnutella network equally. BearShare does not. Please don't use BearShare, as it only works properly with other BearShare clients and leaves users with other clients unable to access the files you are trying to share. Here's a simple rhyme to help everyone remember:

Be nice and play fair. Uninstall BearShare."

--\dr. damn/--
Found at http://cleanclients.edot.ch/bearshare.html

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and? BearShare only works properly with other BearShare clients, it disadvantages other clients and does not allow all clients to connect to it. the shown Xolox downloads (old xolox version) are only because they are connected through non-Bearshare clients! BearShare alone wold block them. Mrgone, also you know it... nice hipocrisy from you again.

did you see the 'share files' checkbox? what an unhealthy freeloading feature!

Mrgone, couldn't you make your screenshot bigger?

They are connected directly to BearShare. You see, that is how file transfer takes place on Gnutella, peer to peer.

You're getting confused between host connections and file transfer connections. You can read up on the protocol here.

Regardless, the point here is that dr. damn has claimed that users with other clients are unable to access the files bearshare users are trying to share. This is obviously not true.