Does "going open source mean I'll be able to get a version without ads? I am not going to support Limewire by shopping online whether I like the software or not. Giving away a program on the condition that it displays ads is offensive. And these pop-ups!...people are so rude. Just because someone writes a piece of software they think they have the right to charge money, bundle ads or not release the source code and if they do it's done optionally as a gift. Intellectual property is theft. To keep knowledge secret or claim ownership of it is wrong, even if it was you who came up with it.
Go open source, yes. Stop trying to make money and we'll all be a lot happier. Ad-ware makes me wanna puke!
I thank the writers of Limewire for their open-source contribution and look forward to this and other sofware without ads in an emerging world where everyone shares.

Liberal schmuck

Why don't you spend 40 hours a week for a year or two developing something and then make no money off it and give it away for free...

***

Can I borrow your car (and wife) tomorrow ?

LOL

Go to freshmeat.com and find a lot of free programs where people have done just that.
Get a clue before you call someone a ***, you ***!
*** windows users are the only ones *** enough to pay for software because they don't want to go look for it.

Gnucleus is completely free/non-profit/open-source/you-don't-have-to-give-them-your-first-born-son and is years in development - http://www.gnucleus.net

(and if the lack of ads in Gnucleus upsets you, you can get Morpheus which is Gnucleus with added spyware and ads)

Also since LimeWire is open sourced you can:

Get the source off their cvs server and compile it yourself.

Or (since your lazy) you can grab an ad-free LimeWire mod:

there is Clean LimeWire (which you'll have trouble finding - word on the street is that their servers were flooded so that they couldn't afford hosting)

there is FreeWire - http://www.freewirep2p.com

and there is AquaLime with the funky colors - http://MamiyaOtaru.mangatoanime.com

Yes there is freewire... without ads but with A LOT of SPYWARE!!!

Morgwen

Excuse me you *** but people that code that stuff do it in their spare time, they have to have real jobs too. Not everyone wants to give away their hard work and there is nothing wrong with it, what there is something wrong with is YOU and the guy taht originally posted this thread. It is up to the software designer to decide if it's free or not, live with it or write your own damn software you damn bottom feeders.

Sipher, unregistered!

NO FLAMES!!!

Or we will see more edits in this thread - OK?

Morgwen

It's optional, I just uncheck the little boxies and voila!

This thread's even funnier with the ***'s.

Unregistered #2 (not the first guy)