You are right that complex things like full XML and other strange things make it hard for the small developer to keep up.
Limewire has a team of 5 or more working on this full time and getting their bills paid.
Kazza pays $4000 a month for a license fee, where the hell do they get that sort of cash? What laws are they bending?
I don't think it's "unethical and unproductive" to work with them, its my choice. Greg of LW is a good front man for PR. Vinnie should take note and hire some 16 yr old for cheap to do his PR, it would be better than what he has been doing.
I know how frustrating this can be, just quit reading the_gdf for a week and you will feel better. Nothing happens there anyway, if a "big" client wants to do something they just will, screw what you have to say.
"well documented and fair discussed protocol" depends on what "RAM" does with his documentation project and so far it only copied what was there. LW and or BS should contribute some $$ towards this.
"Third, BS (Vinnie alias Freepeers) is well known for a rude and proprietary thinking. Stubborn...." and this is news? We all know this.
"Isn't it a joke to claim a v0.6 support in servents?" don't knock the only thing that a the_gdf agreed to as a group in what 1 year now? the_gdf produces nothing but does keep people thinking someone is listening.
"Fifth, LW's and BS's loud marketing is unfair against other developers and more reliable servents" anything not running on windows is the better client due to the underlying OS bugs.

What you need to do is take your gnutella code, rename the connect strings, add some ssh encryption, set up some illegal MP3 computers with 60GB full of MP3's and fake many IP's to show how well it works, and sell it to some idiots that will pay $4000 a month to you like kazza and morph did. Some marketing genius pulled a fast one on them!