Flame warriors suck. period.

That aside, what Moak said made me curious. I fail to see why bearshare leaving and creating its own network would help gnutella. Bearshare may contribute to fracturing of gnutella, compartmentalization etc. But them leaving and taking their large user base and their files with them and going to a new network would really be compartmentalization, far more so than things are now. Why would this help? I don't know everything, these are honest questions (not rhetorical) and I'm hoping for an answer.

I mean, does bearshare download from other clients while refusing to upload them? That would suck, but I can't see how anything short of that would hurt the gnutella network.

And yes, spyware sucks, we all know this. This is why I myself would never use bearshare, but if others choose to have it on their computer, so what? why does that affect you so personally?