I posted this as a comment on gnutellanews, but wanted to raise the issue here as well.

I am dissapointed in the fact that the new morpheus preview edition is only gnucleus under another face. I hoped it would be based on rebol, like stated on their webpage:

http://www.rebol.com/news1a31.html

Not that I wish Morpheus any greater success, but I want rebol to be everywhere.

On musiccity.com you can currently read this: "Exciting News... StreamCast Networks is also very excited to announce that in approximately two weeks, Morpheus 2.0 will be released. Morpheus 2.0 will revolutionize the way you use peer-to-peer networks!"

I hope this is the version I have been waiting for, and the gnucleus thing was just a quick fix for not loosing all of their customers, although I am pessimistic.

Does anyone have any inside information, or information at all? There have been much media coverage of morpheus lately but I haven't seen one word of rebol.

Ok, tired of waiting for someone to guess an answer, I went for reliable sources and mailed both Streamcast and Rebol. This is what Carl Sassenrath (head of Rebol) answered.

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:21:22 -0800
From: Carl Sassenrath
To: Jon Åslund
Subject: Re: Morpheus 2.0

Yes... preview edition was just something they did in order
to deal with the Kazaa problem. It's not 2.0.

Yes, we think so too.

-Carl

At 3/14/02 10:35 PM +0100, you wrote:

>According to this press release:
>
> http://www.rebol.com/news1a31.html
>
>Morpheus will base it's next version (2.0) on REBOL IOS. I was very
>surprised to see the morpheus preview edition to be based on
>gnucleus. Are you still working with Morpheus on this? It would be
>great to see REBOL out on the Internet on a big scale, which clearly
>will happen if Morpheus is to build their new version on REBOL IOS.
>
>--
>___\ Jon Åslund