azureus

azureus or vuze or whatever they are calling this this week, blows. I love how they say "it plays HD video" when what it does is wrap itself around windows media player. It is one of the new generation of software that is made of other software that only exists to advertise other stuff. They do have a Linux client. They want to be a service. They want to charge you money every minute for every byte of data and for every click. They want to sandbox you in to one space so you can't go anywhere else while saying they provide a rounded full service one stop turn-key product.

Microsoft wants you to sign on to their cloud network and pay for everything you do for every moment you are there and for every moment you use their software to get there. They want to charge you for access and tax, I mean charge you for every transaction. They want you to buy their hardware using their software to access their software to get to their services that they charge for that only lead you to their pages which only work on their software and hardware, that they charge you for.

Nice work if you can get it. Doesn't Microsoft have 90% of the market on OS? Wait, didn't it used to be 95% a while back? Will it be 50% in ten years?