On Wednesday 01 August 2001 11:35 am, you wrote:
> ... I heard about this in an NPR oped - comedy piece a couple of
> days ago -- Are Open Source sources to limewire available? Could
> you give me a steer pelase?
Try http://www.limewire.com/ . LimeWire is, unfortunately, not open source,
but privately funded commercial software that will most likely become adware
as soon as it's out of beta. It's a pretty advanced Gnutella client though,
it's written in Java so it'll run just about anywhere, and it's very user
friendly (as Gnutella clients go). I've had problems running it on Solaris
and Linux which all disappeared once I got the latest Java Runtime
Environment (JRE) from http://java.sun.com/ to run it with.
For the technically inclined list members, they're also sponsoring a contest.
You write a paper on how to improve the Gnutella network, and the winner gets
a thousand bucks and a trip to New York to discuss the paper with the
LimeWire developers.. they basically want free research, but hey, if you were
gonna open source your research anyway, why not pick up some cash along the
way? :)
--Paul
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