"Avalanche" - P2P from Microsoft

Post by **ilum0s** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:05 pm

http://www.theregister.com/2005/06/16/f ... microsoft/

Interesting, hopefully a clever open-source coder somewhere will rip off the method and make a better application.

Post by **Pext** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:28 pm

wow... this is some amazing trick

Post by **Coreiel** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:31 pm

thats pretty damn incredible. hand it to ms for doing what they do best, taking over and trying to own everything in the world.

ps. i am not bashing ms, i'm a faithful customer. faggots.

Post by **Pext** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:33 pm

hm... well. i think, soon, there will be some new filesharing thing, that copies microsofts approach.
but i think they will have a patent for it.

Post by **Eraser** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:08 pm

Sounds like what Newsgroup users have been doing for ages with parity files,combined with bittorrent

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:12 pm

this reminds me of SmartPAR

Post by **DiscoDave** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:47 pm

Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge

I live about 25mins from there, I should drop down and do some persuading, or bitch at them

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:13 am

Coreiel wrote:thats pretty damn incredible. hand it to ms for doing what they do best, taking over and trying to own everything in the world.

ps. i am not bashing ms, i'm a faithful customer. faggots.

i always thought what microsoft did best was take someone elses ideas and mold them into the most marketable comodity possible.
ofcourse making only the required ammount of changes to gain a patenet.

Post by **Coreiel** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:16 am

no, they took oportunities, smart ones at that, and made themselves rich. all these whiny companies are just pussies for not thinking of the shit MS has.

Post by **Transient** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:25 am

Eraser wrote:Sounds like what Newsgroup users have been doing for ages with parity files,combined with bittorrent

I was about to say MS was ingenious, then I realized that all they did was make .PAR files for their version of BT. :lol:

Post by **Tormentius** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:37 am

Coreiel wrote:no, they took oportunities, smart ones at that, and made themselves rich. all these whiny companies are just pussies for not thinking of the shit MS has.

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Post by **Massive Quasars** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:02 am

Eraser wrote:Sounds like what Newsgroup users have been doing for ages with parity files,combined with bittorrent

I didn't notice you already mentioned this.

Post by **R00k** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:20 am

Coreiel wrote:no, they took oportunities, smart ones at that, and made themselves rich. all these whiny companies are just pussies for not thinking of the shit MS has.

Nah, they're just pussies for accepting thousands of dollars for the work they've been doing all along for nothing more than a warm-fuzzy feeling.

I still think MS is a predatory company though.