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by peppertree 764 days ago
Still waiting on KaZaA open source. Kids these days don't know what it's like trying to download a music video and end up watching someone getting beheaded.
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I’m pretty sure kids these days do know exactly what that’s like (although they wouldn’t be downloading the music video and it wouldn’t have taken over an hour for a shitty 2.3mb file)
Or downloading Windows XP.ISO and booting up Ubuntu. 15 year old me was confused and enraged.
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, l33tness.
So br00tal
There are open source clients for FastTrack protocol based on giFT (https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/): Apollon (https://apollon.sourceforge.net) and KCeasy (http://www.kceasy.com).
I realize this is a joke, but can’t resist mentioning that LimeWire was (is?) open source (or at least used an open network in GnuTella)
And funnily enough, gnutella being a creation of Justin Frankel, the creator of Winamp as well.