Brunch w/Bram
I met up with Bram Cohen in San Francisco the other day after catching the peace march outside my hotel. I was psyched to hear he got funding for his project from an open-source patron, so that he won't have to go the starving-artist route anymore. I was doubly-psyched that he is a huge cloudmark fan and considered working there when they kicked off the business side of things. (Now I have no doubts: Cloudmark does rule.)
He confessed that BT's transfer-rate algorithms are slightly off, but he typically hears about BT saturating decent-sized DSL lines, so wasn't too surprised to hear about my perplexingly amazing ISO download experience.
Neither us could figure out why the ISO/RPM/APT downloader sites, and Red Hat and Ximian etc. aren't interested in using BitTorrent. It seems like such an amazing fit for the OSS folks with hefty download bills. But Bram was less perturbed by it than me. I've written Red Hat's web folks about it, but didn't get a response. It's pretty hard to convince Miguel w.r.t. any non-Ximian technology, so maybe I'll try to convince Progeny to give BT a shot.
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