
November 13th, 2001
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 | Gnutella Veteran | | Join Date: November 11th, 2001 Location: Germany
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Limewire Spyware! Quote: Originally posted by SRL
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What I think will *really* be interesting is what happens once they figure out that user-hostile features and open source go together about as well as Hitler at a rabbi convention.
[...] | Ok, thread is over, you lost. Quote:
Expect to see forked version with the adware removed shortly after every new release. Likewise, from what I understand the ads are also only on the Win32 version too. Java being what it is, I wonder how hard it would be to get one of the non-windows distributions to work. | I don't think there is going to be a forked version, cause people who are knowing enough to create a forked version would probably rather install a non-windows distribution. - Using Linux for example, it would be enough, just to overwrite the .jar files with .jar files from another installer. (Although various helper applications to preview something won't work.) |