No, they won't steal it... but... They may patent it. Thus, bittorrent or any similar open source / free software can never be improved and no one else can ever create a similar commercial product without paying M$ an exhorbitant technology license fee. Plus, any of us who have ever used bittorrent will be sued and required to pay damages for having used M$ technology in the past (Yes it was before M$ 'invented' it, but the patent office and courts don't seem to care about little details such as that do they?).
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
IOW redundancy, checksums, parity, hashing, archiving, compression, node/network distributed tasks (including decentralised peer methods), etc., have all been around for years before MS decided to get in on the act. There is plenty of evidence that would make any attempt to patent it fruitless.
Avalanche is just yet another in an extensive catalogue of Microsoft "innovations", that are basically plagiarised and stolen, so they can *attempt* to embrace, extend and extinguish that prior art, to monopolise it, corner the market, and clean up.
If it ever actually happens, as opposed to becoming just another bit of MS vaporware, it will be some "dll" hidden in the windows directory that deals with distributed "Windows Updates", and will likely never make it into any P2P or archiving software.
What is the "true" reason that software like RAR, PAR2, BitTorrent, etc., exist? Can you imagine MS ever wanting to get into that market?
Me neither.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
check out.
http://research.microsoft.com/~pablo/avalanche.htm
well its a good idea right ?
I think the developer of bittorent Bram Cohen and the developers of PAR should get in bed.
Give and ye shall receive!
No, they won't steal it... but... They may patent it. Thus, bittorrent or any similar open source / free software can never be improved and no one else can ever create a similar commercial product without paying M$ an exhorbitant technology license fee. Plus, any of us who have ever used bittorrent will be sued and required to pay damages for having used M$ technology in the past (Yes it was before M$ 'invented' it, but the patent office and courts don't seem to care about little details such as that do they?).
They can't patent "prior art".
IOW redundancy, checksums, parity, hashing, archiving, compression, node/network distributed tasks (including decentralised peer methods), etc., have all been around for years before MS decided to get in on the act. There is plenty of evidence that would make any attempt to patent it fruitless.
Avalanche is just yet another in an extensive catalogue of Microsoft "innovations", that are basically plagiarised and stolen, so they can *attempt* to embrace, extend and extinguish that prior art, to monopolise it, corner the market, and clean up.
If it ever actually happens, as opposed to becoming just another bit of MS vaporware, it will be some "dll" hidden in the windows directory that deals with distributed "Windows Updates", and will likely never make it into any P2P or archiving software.
What is the "true" reason that software like RAR, PAR2, BitTorrent, etc., exist? Can you imagine MS ever wanting to get into that market?
Me neither.