Vinnie Falco, 28, the West Palm Beach, Fla., developer of Bearshare. He operates from his apartment, covering all costs himself. "A lot of exciting technologies will come out of it," he says.

From USA TODAY, 02/08/2001
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...apsterlike.htm

they forgot to say that he pays for that apartment using other people's CPU cycles, without asking permission.
gnutella is not here to be someones profit center.
it's about getting rid of the greed, not making more.

"I've even masqueraded myself [as a women] to gain information I might not otherwise have been able to get, so I know what I'm talking about" - Vinnie alias freepers

From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_gdf/message/7051

And I masqueraded myself as a woman to be able to go to a flight school in the US. Is here anybody who never masqueraded as a woman?

Oh give this attitude up already.
Other people choose to download software that takes a lot of time and money to make.
You want a not-for-profit Gnutella? Go be the next John Marshall, not the current whine-a-holic on GF.com