On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:50:47 -0500 Gerald Combs [email protected] wrote:
Why isn't BitTorrent (or any other P2P software for that matter) used as an official, sanctioned, software distribution channel along with HTTP and FTP? Specifically, why aren't places like SourceForge, kernel.org, Gentoo, Mozilla, and OpenOffice using it?
Maybe I'm a weirdo, but if HTTP and FTP work and the projects can afford the bandwidth why would they? Just another service they would have to maintain.
The main reason someone uses BitTorrent is to avoid having to pay for all of the bandwidth costs associated with large projects. There is no other real reason to switch, other than being new/different/cool which IMHO is a horrible reason.
Out of curiosity why would you want them to support BitTorrent?
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