Mldonkey too old? LowID?

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 13:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 19:26 +0100, Colin Brace wrote:
> > On 2/5/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Do you mean gtk-gnutella for Gnutella?  Isn't Limewire a Windows/Mac
> > > app?
> > 
> > No, it is written in Java, and runs, in principle, on any OS that has Java.
> > 
> > Limewire runs very well under Linux.
> 
> But it's closed source right?  Why would anyone use a proprietary Java
> app when there's a native gnutella client that's as good if not better?

Hmm, I see that Limewire or parts of it recently were open sourced.  But
it still requires Java which was still proprietary last time I checked.

Still seems crazy to use a slow-ass Java app when there's a native one
available...

Lee