BitTorrent, uTorrent, team up
p2pnet.net News:- BitTorrent and µTorrent have tied the knot.
“Together, we are pleased to announce that BitTorrent, Inc. and µTorrent AB have decided to join forces,” say BT’s Bram Cohen and µT’s Ludvig (Ludde) Strigeus on the µTorrent, going on:
BitTorrent has acquired µTorrent as it recognized the merits of µTorrent’s exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community. Bringing together µTorrent’s efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent’s expertise in networking protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision will be the best BitTorrent client.
What does this mean for the µTorrent community? Not much, at least not at first. The intention is to maintain the website as it is, and keep the forums and community active. Moving forward behind the scenes, we will continue to develop µTorrent and will be using the codebase in other applications, especially ones where a fast, lightweight implementation is more suitable, such as embedded systems on TVs, cell phones, and other non-PC platforms.
The existent µTorrent and BitTorrent communities are immensely valuable to us, which is why we are announcing this here first to make sure you’re all the first to know about the news. The plan is to continue to foster the health and growth of the community that has been critical to the success of µTorrent. Thank you in advance for your support.
Bram and Ludde
(Thanks, Drake)
Also See:
teamed up – µTorrent and BitTorrent Join Forces, December 7, 2006
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December 7th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
this is wrong and those who know me know why [http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7125]
December 7th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Hollywood has it’s hooks into BitTorrent already. Buy default, uTorrent will live under the same evil dark cloud of “legitimacy”. Too bad.
December 8th, 2006 at 12:16 am
Expect the next version of microtorrent to have some sort of tattletail in it. The Kazaa ploy as a source of sue em all has about played out its hand. With victims that are fighting back with charges of RICO and that the Kazaa suit settled all terms of the sue em all, they now need a new source of info. Heaven help those that get the next update and think they got something worth sharing.
December 8th, 2006 at 12:34 am
A shame, really, but I didn’t like µTorrent that much anyway because it’s closed source. I prefer using Open Source as much as possible, because I really like it’s idea and how it creates tons of new innovative software, games etc.
But think about the positive side of this sell-out, as one may call it: there will be a huge mass of former µTorrent users looking for alternative torrent clients to suti their needs. All it means is more developement and I like it.
µTorrent simply grew too big and it wasn’t Open Source, that’s the problem
December 8th, 2006 at 10:05 am
As if the corporate world has any use for p2p stuff beyond mere branding (to get the sheeple in the door.) These days, web servers and gigantic blocks of bandwidth are dirt dirt dirt cheap, which is why corporate download sites don’t need to use any sort of p2p.
This utorrent people probably had a gun aimed at their head and a fistful of cash when going into this deal. ‘Sell out or get sued’ is the usual M.O. for the corporate media monopoly.
And it’s not like utorrent is much of a program anyways. It would be trivial for a single C++ programmer to reproduce such software within a period of a few months.
And besides, it’s not open-source anyways, so what kind of fool would trust that software to begin with.
The bit-torrent technology is quickly becoming outdated anyways. Many many many people are working on the next generation of file-sharing that uses network-coding, a concept that utilizes linear systems of equations and finite-field mathematics for a much more efficient flow of data.
December 8th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Realease the freakin’ source already.
December 12th, 2006 at 7:19 am
do you people know anything about open source? have you ever contributed to an open source project? there are never more than a few people (that actually contribute code)… its HARD work that you schlebs know nothing about… other than it gets you free lost episodes
April 1st, 2009 at 1:18 am
Quote: “do you people know anything about open source? have you ever contributed to an open source project? there are never more than a few people (that actually contribute code)… its HARD work that you schlebs know nothing about… other than it gets you free lost episodes”
So? uTorrent only had one developer, most apps do when they are new. It’s only when an app starts making money that it gets lots of developers (and usually turn to sh*t). Also not all contributing is code, some of us do “art” and sh*t. Don’t come here and think you can assume what people do and don’t or what they know. Closed source can get you lost episodes too so whats your point? You don’t code open source for the credit, if you do you’re a moron.
Quote: “The bit-torrent technology is quickly becoming outdated anyways. Many many many people are working on the next generation of file-sharing that uses network-coding, a concept that utilizes linear systems of equations and finite-field mathematics for a much more efficient flow of data.”
This statement is useless without a link. Looks more like someone trying to seem smart rather than actual technology. To me it sounds like “computers are on the way out cuz “soon” we’ll have quantum-computers (maybe)”