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Why do you bother w/Limewire?

Easily the buggiest, least successful P2P program available.

I know of no one who has had consistent success with it. This is
also evidenced by the comments in this forum.

Between the ridiculously low d/l success rates and the rampant complaints,
why bother?

:o It work for me.... and thousands of people, 99% of people bothering going on GF are for help, so it's normal. Use what suits you the best et calmos;)

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#$#$%^&^*((&^^ you flaming *******

I just love these supposed old timers who respond by calling people names.

Grow up junior.

I bother with Limewire because I'm running Mac with OS8.6 and I don't know of another good Mac client. I haven't had the best sucess with Limewire either but I'm not sure there is another game in town.

I tried Myster and it doesn't seem ready for prime time. Everything else requires OSX.

Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?

(crickets)

Hear hear. Thanks for all your posts Peerless--I find them useful and now fun too.

btw brainiack, do you seriously want to know why I (and 100,000 others) bother with gnutella? Or just LW?

Like roliepolieolie, I'm on Mac and now OSX. Acquisition doesn't offer the detail I need to understand what is developing in this FASCINATING opensource multilanguage multiplatform project (note: it's not yet a proprietary commercial program).

Opensource is a key reason; community is another: above all, solving the problem of how peers can share on a decentralized network

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Why Should I Use LimeWire?
At LimeWire, we are working on developing the future of open peer networks and the digital commons. Our goal is to build users a tool that allows them to easily publish content to the world. . . . LimeWire is capable of multiple searches, available in several different languages, and is most famous for its ease-of-use and cross platform compatibility

I don't know what profit financial gurus like Mark Gorton and Greg Bildson may eventually realize by developing LW the way they did, but in the meantime an OPEN tool is being developed that will and has given the non-commercial community some pretty powerful resources.

In short--it's a worthwhile learning experience.

Salut Stief, this is music to my ears....
Merci!

Salut et voilà--vive la [le?] gnutella libre!

Tough one... It should be: Vive le (réseau as in Québec) Gnutella libre! I personally prefer: Vive l'ouverture d'esprit de Gnutella! (Vive the open mind of Gnutella!)

always nice to see a good argument

No argument--just a good question.

Seriously though, is there any other computer project that can legitimately claim to be developing the scope of the ideal of the "digital commons" as much as gnutella in general and LW in particular?

Phillipe Verdy's language work (eg http://gui.limewire.org/servlets/Rea...1&listName=dev), the international contributions of opensourcers like Gregorio, Sam, Jens-Uwe, Roger and many I don't know of really show an international community freely offering their time and talents. These forums give those of who can't code the chance to ask and maybe even help contribute what we can too. That is why bugs can be identified--and worked on! Gad--what--40 releases in the last year?

Seriously--does any other project have a better claim to developing the digital commons?