Azureus going commercial?

[Newby]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/29/1344226&from=rss

Ewwwwww!

[deadly7]

Idiots.

[Sidoh]

How are they idiots?

[Warrior]

In other words, they wisened up?

[Sidoh]

Unless you're lucky, I think it's inevitable that a huge open source project eventually goes commercial.  You can't expect the entire team to live off what little revenue they recieve from donations...

[deadly7]

When this starts and they've got ads going around for independant movies or whatever, I doubt that people are really going to stick around.  And I wouldn't doubt if Azureus eventually starts paying to use their program (i.e. a $10 price tag to get a verification key or something).  Maybe I am not understanding the article right, but I think this'll sstart a downward trend for Azureus.

[Joe]

* Joe won't upgrade anymore.

[rabbit]

Pah!  I still run 1.2.

[GameSnake]

By going more commercial, they run the risk of anti-p2p targeting.

[Joe]

Way to read the article GameSnake. =)

I'm running 2.4.0.2.

[Sidoh]

When this starts and they've got ads going around for independant movies or whatever, I doubt that people are really going to stick around.  And I wouldn't doubt if Azureus eventually starts paying to use their program (i.e. a $10 price tag to get a verification key or something).  Maybe I am not understanding the article right, but I think this'll sstart a downward trend for Azureus.

Maybe in pure analyzation of number of users, but I'm sure their revenue will increase.  Frankly, I don't think they care much if people continue using their application.

[deadly7]

They will, eventually.  I doubt the ads will just be a set income, I think the ads will have some sort of spyware-like thing that has Azureus send back the number of users/visitors a month or whatever, and they'll pay Azureus back through that.  Doing it any other way would be stupid.

[Sidoh]

They will, eventually.  I doubt the ads will just be a set income, I think the ads will have some sort of spyware-like thing that has Azureus send back the number of users/visitors a month or whatever, and they'll pay Azureus back through that.  Doing it any other way would be stupid.

I don't think so.  Just because it isn't going to be open source anymore doesn't mean its going to be lower quality.  I use Opera over FireFox because I find it to be a superior product.  I don't give a rats ass that FireFox is open source and Opera isn't.  I'm all for open source, but it doesn't even become a factor when I'm choosing which product I want to use.  If one's better than the other, I'll use it.

That's not spyware.  If you think that's spyware, you may as well consider hit counters as such.

[deadly7]

Where did open source come from?

I consider it spyware if a program on my computer is reporting my usage back to it.  A hit counter is different.  They don't stay on your computer; they record your hit when you visit the website.

[Sidoh]

Where did open source come from?

What kind of question is that? ... :P

I consider it spyware if a program on my computer is reporting my usage back to it.  A hit counter is different.  They don't stay on your computer; they record your hit when you visit the website.

What's different about reporting to a source if/when you click an ad?  As long as it's not spying on what you're doing--unless it concerns that ad--I don't see anything wrong with it.  It seems to be exactly what I've already stated to me: a hit counter.