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Re:BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major ... by joepie91_ on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @10:25PM (#9536394)
The problem is that there's no "something". All BitTorrent does is make a promise, and that is worth nothing. Thus, "something is better than nothing" doesn't apply.

Now if it were a verifiably half-assed solution, I'd agree with your statement.

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Re:BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major ... by danieldk on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @02:49AM (#9537226)
They did let iSEC partners review their source code. So, it is not nothing.

But I agree that it would be far more trustable (and popular) if Bittorrent Sync were open source. And there is still a profit model with an open source BTSync: let people (who need it) get a tracker, relay server, and always-on (read-only encrypted) peer subscription.

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