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A comment on Bad Times For BitTorrent: $17 M Financing Undone, Valuation Plummets. Parent comment

Re:Bad Times For BitTorrent: $17 M Financing Undone, Valuati... by halo on Monday December 15, 2008 @06:59AM (#398260)
"The idea" being the core protocol. I can't wait until you criticise Tim Berners-Lee for creating a poor web browser compared to Netscape.

I agree on the business side though - it was always going to be an uphill struggle, and they seriously missed a trick by being beaten to market by Kontiki and seem to be struggling to find a decent business plan.

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Re:Bad Times For BitTorrent: $17 M Financing Undone, Valuati... by markessien on Monday December 15, 2008 @08:32AM (#398303)
"The idea" is not the protocol. The protocol itself is nothing special, it's the idea that is special. I consciously decided not to praise the actual protocol, as there is nothing unusual about it.
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