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Re:Skype's Principal Architect explains why peer-to-peer was... by lukifer on Monday June 24, 2013 @02:55AM (#5931394)
> There's also Bittorrent Sync, but it's completely locked down.

This really surprised me; for some reason, I assumed it was open source. Since the storage is entirely peer-to-peer, I wonder what their business model is?

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Re:Skype's Principal Architect explains why peer-to-peer was... by burntsushi on Monday June 24, 2013 @02:59AM (#5931404)
Who knows. It's completely opaque to me. I just don't want to be left high-and-dry if the maintainers decide to abandon the project. Plus, I want to be able to tinker, of course. :-)

[EDIT] This was all I could find.[1] Which isn't much.

[1] - http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/8816-will-syncapp-be-open-...

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Re:Skype's Principal Architect explains why peer-to-peer was... by mtgx on Monday June 24, 2013 @05:34AM (#5931903)
Not open source, probably because the bittorrent protocol isn't open source.
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Re:Skype's Principal Architect explains why peer-to-peer was... by goblin89 on Monday June 24, 2013 @07:22AM (#5932195)
I believe that's not correct. First a nitpick, I think it's only software that can be open or closed source. Protocol specification might be kept secret, though.

Regarding specifically BitTorrent protocol specification[0], it's free to use. Anyone can build their open or closed source BitTorrent client without reverse engineering.

[0] http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html

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Re:Skype's Principal Architect explains why peer-to-peer was... by lukifer on Monday June 24, 2013 @05:56AM (#5931948)
How so? Several open-source clients exist. Were they reverse-engineered?
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Re:Skype's Principal Architect explains why peer-to-peer was... by joshaidan on Monday June 24, 2013 @08:28AM (#5932429)
I believe the first bittorrent client was written in python. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
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