Ashwin Navin leaves BitTorrent
p2pnet news view | P2P:- BitTorrent president Ashwin Navin is off to pastures new.
One of the (if not the) principal architects behind BT’s move to the Dark Side, aka Hollywood’s MPAA, Navin, who once said “We take comfort in the Supreme Court decision on Grokster,” will, “form an incubator-like endeavor with a group of other tech executives that includes YouTube co-founder Steve Chen,” says Chris Albrecht in Fortune.
This will give him a, “fresh start,”" says the story, going on:
“He says that along with Chen he has partnered with Aber Whitcomb of MySpace and Jim Young from HotorNot to purchase a small building in the Mission District of San Francisco. The building will be a workspace for tech entrepreneurs to get their ideas off the ground, a sort of alternative to working from coffee shops. Sounds like an incubator.”
How very dot-com boom, says Albrecht.
How very.
“As of several weeks ago, I officially transitioned from Co-Founder & President to a Co-Founder & Board Director,” says Navin in an email quoted by Fortune.
Actually, Bram Cohen created the BitTorrent P2P communications protocol all by himself.
Navin turned up considerably later.
“What attracted me to BitTorrent in the first place (and what is still inspiring to this day) is its ability to provide people true digital freedom,” he says in the email. “BitTorrent exemplifies market principles, tends toward decentralization, and operates on principles of meritocracy – all great virtues in my book!”
He mentions Bram, who started it all, but once.
Dark Side – Grokster ‘comforts’ BitTorrent, January 2, 2007
Fortune – Ashwin Navin Leaving BitTorrent, Forming New Venture With YouTube’s Chen, Others, November 6, 2008
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November 7th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
“He mentions Bram, who started it all, but once.”
In his farewell address, he does not mention BitTorrent’s creator at all. Ashwin likes to refer to himself as “co-founder of Bittorrent” as if he and Bram contributed equally. Ashwin should go into politics. He already talks like a politician every time he opens his mouth. Funny how he uses the word “transitioned” in an attempt to put a positive spin on his obvious sacking.
Ashvin will probably be leaving on a “golden parachute” – far different from the “golden showers” he personally rained down on loyal users when he took over BitTorrent.
It’s probably not much different from Apple computer. Steve Wozniac created it, by himself, but Jobs, a technical dunce, stole the show and ended up getting all the credit, publicity and money. We’ll see if Ashvin tries to do the same with BitTorrent.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Another opportunistic and parasitic nobody feeding off the ideas of others. How original. Unable to create anything himself, he instead steals concepts. This incubator is the manifestation of his inability to be innovative.
November 27th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Whatever, bram is useless. his client sucked, so they bought utorrent. thats all the company has