Transmission | Apr 19 2007 |
LEE MAJORS Transmission is awesome, I've been using the pre-release 0.7svn for a long time now. It's a real apple like app. Simple, uncluttered and does what it does well. To me a torrent client should use very little resources and transmit achieves this. Version 0.7 brings with it a few of the features that I was really missing, now any features missing I can live without.
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
LEE MAJORS Good point. Didn't go and check the license. Still think it is unethical...and he has had these sort of claims made against him in the past. Technical details aside I still don't agree with it, probably a reason I didn't check into it too much.... cause it doesn't change my point of view that much. But thanks for clearing that up.
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
LEE MAJORS I didn't miss the guys point... that is half the reason I hate this software. It's such an annoying conflict of actually liking what he is doing and wishing he wouldn't do it in an underhanded way. If he would only use his skills to benefit the Project everyone would be happy.
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Xtorrent | Feb 9 2007 |
DVASKELIS "an underhanded way"? That seems a bit harsh. For reference, the libtransmission license allows and promotes the idea that anyone can use the code as long as they say that they are using it, regardless if it's free or not. From Xtorrent's About window: "Xtorrent uses code from the libtransmission project." From the Xtorrent's developer's post on the Transmission forum: "First of all, I'd just like to give a quick thanks to the Transmission developers for building a solid foundational library. There's no end of choices out there, and I didn't make my choice lightly. Please take Xtorrent as a compliment. If you guys ever need some help of any sort, please feel free to give me a shout. We're all in this together. :) [...] The single change I've made was incorporating parts of the min-announce patch (that's sitting in Transmission's public trac, but hasn't been incorporated for whatever reason). I do promise that if I do end up making any other changes or additions to the core, I'll share them back with you guys, even though there's no obligation to do so. Whether or not anyone likes my code isn't up to me, alas. :)"
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
LEE MAJORS OK, just to clear this thing up. This app, is little more than a gui over an open source project (a pretty good GUI). You are better off using transmit, because it will always be more up to date and less CPU intensive. This developer has in the past and to the best of my knowledge in this app has violated Open source license agreements, not even crediting the original project. Just trying to sneak the code in there and then charge for the product. This practice is damaging for not only the project but for Mac OS X as a platform. And besides that it's just poor form. These developers rape projects for their code contribute nothing back and then try to make money off it. $15 is too much for something you can have for free. Profiting off an open source project is unethical when you give nothing back. Do not support this developer.
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
FAHLMAN I wasn't aware that Transmit handled torrent files. Maybe you wanted to say it was based upon Transmission? Now that we have that straightened out let me straighten out another mistake in your post. [url=http://transmission.m0k.org/]Transmission[/url] while being OSS (Open Source Software) is released under the MIT License. The MIT License allows for reuse of the original source code in proprietary software that can be sold and/or released without it's own source code being open. Next time before you spout off get your information straight. Thank you.
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
ATTENTIONWANDERED but still, it really is unethical. open source is about giving back to the community besides it makes absolutely no sense anyways, people use bittorrent because they hate paying for things (usually, i know there are legitamite downloads but seriously) why would you pay for a bittorrent client that will never be faster than its open source counterpart? the only step up is searching, but being part of a community and knowing of www.google.com and www.scrapetorrent.com makes this completely useless i do give the author some credit though, he is simplifying torrenting for the masses, and maybe it will catch on, but still. (besides, i get better speeds in azereus. should have used their source somehow)
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
LEE MAJORS Good point. Didn't go and check the license. Still think it is unethical...and he has had these sort of claims made against him in the past. Technical details aside I still don't agree with it, probably a reason I didn't check into it too much.... cause it doesn't change my point of view that much. But thanks for clearing that up.
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Xtorrent | Feb 9 2007 |
FAHLMAN I didn't claim it made sense. In fact I would not pay for any bittorrent application because I download a torrent file about once every three months. That being said there is still nothing unethical about what he's done. The developer of Transmission specifically made a choice to use the MIT License knowing full well that it allowed for resale of his original source. If it's his source and he doesn't care, why should we?
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
LEE MAJORS So what you are saying is I can come to your house steal your car, put some new rims on it and sell it for profit and give you nothing? Sweet what is your address?
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
LEE MAJORS Ok, you have no idea what you are talking about. Open source does not mean "rape it for code". There is a difference in the license that an open source project will be released under. This guy charges money for code that is not his, breaking agreements and violating the license agreements for these projects. Not just for xTorrent, but for most of his other stuff. People like him undermine the whole point of the open source community, ripping off code and making people pay for it. IF YOU LIKE FREE SOFTWARE DON'T SUPPORT THIS! Go read up and try to learn. BTW you will probably find that MacOS X is a very different situation, and not really open source for the most of it.
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Xtorrent | Feb 5 2007 |
LEE MAJORS This guy has a reputation for using open source projects coding an interface and charging for it. This app is no different, it is basically just Transmission with a skin on it, and he wants $15 for it. I don't think so.
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
HANGON useless comment....macosx is a gui on top of open source projects...osirix is a gui on top of open source projects.... this guy softwares are beautiful.
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
MUDFLAPPER That's like saying Apple tarts up stock PC parts and sells it back to us at a markup. This guy one of the best gui designers I've ever seen. He understands that a great user experience is what computing is all about.
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
LEE MAJORS Ok, you have no idea what you are talking about. Open source does not mean "rape it for code". There is a difference in the license that an open source project will be released under. This guy charges money for code that is not his, breaking agreements and violating the license agreements for these projects. Not just for xTorrent, but for most of his other stuff. People like him undermine the whole point of the open source community, ripping off code and making people pay for it. IF YOU LIKE FREE SOFTWARE DON'T SUPPORT THIS! Go read up and try to learn. BTW you will probably find that MacOS X is a very different situation, and not really open source for the most of it.
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
MUDFLAPPER No, I know exactly what I'm talking about, six million dollar man. I'm saying I don't care if the actual code is open source. I'm willing to pay for the design, because it's gorgeous.
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
LEE MAJORS So what you are saying is I can come to your house steal your car, put some new rims on it and sell it for profit and give you nothing? Sweet what is your address?
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Xtorrent | Feb 8 2007 |
Darn it, Lee, you actually had a decent argument going there until possibly the most tangential analogy ever written. You both have good points. And you both seem to be partly missing the other's point. (And you'll both probably disagree with that, thus reinforcing my point.) I personally use Xtorrent because it looks better than the alternatives. I personally won't ever pay for it because paying for something in order to get other somethings for free is simply counter to my own rules of acquisition. Plus, I'm cheap.
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Xtorrent | Feb 9 2007 |
MUDFLAPPER I don't agree with your analogy Lee. I think it would be more accurate to say that I'm GIVING you my car for free, then you can put your own custom, designed-and-buit-by-you new rims on it, then sell it for profit. I have absolutely no problem with that. Now, if you took my car without my permission, fixed it up and sold it, that would be a no-no.
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Xtorrent | Nov 20 2006 |
LEE MAJORS This is a nice wrapper for Transmission, but doesn't seem to work as well as the original. Transmission is definitely the better option. Would have been better for him to help develop the Transmission interface, but as seems to be the case with a few of his projects he gets open source code wraps it in very good gui and charges for it. If this doesn't stay free then I wouldn't touch.
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iStat Pro | Aug 31 2006 |
LEE MAJORS Really like the new features and interface. It's a really high quality piece of software. WARNING, this widget makes you want to lick it. Yum.
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NeoOffice | Aug 29 2006 |
LEE MAJORS Much better than the alpha, and beta 1? Don't specifically remember using alpha 1. This is probably getting to the stage where it is almost level with MS Office and seems nicer than the Open Office 2 for the PC, but thats probably because I'm on a Mac. Might wait for the next beta to come out before ditching MS Office for the extra 430MB of space. If you are thinking of buying MS Office don't bother, unless you really need... someone to blame?
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iStat Pro | Jul 18 2006 |
LEE MAJORS This seems a bit to beta for me, hangs on the loading screen then sucks up all of my remaining CPU power. Unusual, cause iSlayer is awesome, and all other versions have 'scrolled like butter'.
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iStat Pro | Jul 19 2006 |
MARC EDWARDS Thanks for the kind words. Yeah, this is very much a beta... looking at the widget it's hard to gauge how much change has gone on under the hood. Pretty much everything has been remade. There will be a beta 2 soon that will fix all known bugs, then we'll almost be ready for prime time. Due to the amount of users using iStat, we want to make the release as clean as possible. Marc @ islayer.
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Smultron | Jul 11 2006 |
LEE MAJORS Dude. What's your problem Forrestwalter... You are too hard core. Thanks so much.... now I can use version 2.
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Smultron | Jul 3 2006 |
LEE MAJORS Ummmm.... What happened to the nice interface icons They seem to have been replaced with something a 5 year old would choose (no offence all you 5 year olds out there).
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Smultron | Jul 3 2006 |
The icons definitely looked better in the earlier versions. These are horrible even... :(
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Smultron | Jul 7 2006 |
JEDIK Definitely I miss the old icon set... =(
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Transmission | Jun 22 2006 |
LEE MAJORS Already use this as my default torrent client. The new changes add almost everything else I wanted. The only thing now would be to add scheduling of downloads (for downloading at night), and folder watching (so you just have to drop torrent files in a folder).
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Corripio Artwork Finder | Apr 6 2006 |
LEE MAJORS Great app. Version 0.2.1 and this is a great simple app. It's pretty basic, but you can tell it is going to be quality, because what it does do it does really well. Also the Apple artwork is about 3-5 x better quality than what you get from amazon etc.
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Corripio Artwork Finder | Apr 3 2006 |
LEE MAJORS Version 0.2 and already my default cover finder. It's still got some bugs of course but the fact that it's easy efficient and the image quality is so much better means that this app stays.
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AirPort Monitor Utility | Feb 20 2006 |
LEE MAJORS Nothing I hate more than shareware that doesn't let you use before you buy. I must have tried this before, and now it thinks my trial has expired.
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Apple Mac OS X | Feb 15 2006 |
LEE MAJORS No problems, didn't even bother with disk permissions, just worked. Don't get freaked with the "boot-turnoff-longboot", it must have made a firmware update (on my PB12").
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Google Earth | Jan 11 2006 |
LEE MAJORS Seems that performance has taken a huge hit since the leaked beta version. The beta version seemed to run as good on my 1.5Ghz PowerBook as it did on my PIV 3200 at work. Now this version seems to be almost unusable.
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