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"Avalanche" - P2P from Microsoft
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:05 pm
by ilum0s
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.
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:28 pm
by Pext
wow... this is some amazing trick
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:31 pm
by Coreiel
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.
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:33 pm
by Pext
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.
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:08 pm
by Eraser
Sounds like what Newsgroup users have been doing for ages with parity files,combined with bittorrent
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:12 pm
by Massive Quasars
this reminds me of SmartPAR
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:47 pm
by DiscoDave
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
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:13 am
by Dr_Watson
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.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:16 am
by Coreiel
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.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:25 am
by Transient
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:
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:37 am
by Tormentius
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.
:icon19: :icon14:
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:02 am
by Massive Quasars
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.
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:20 am
by R00k
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.