Bit Torrent Creator Mocks Microsoft Avalanche

BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen has attacked Microsoft’s attempt to build its own version of the software he designed. Cohen dismisses the project, coded named Avalanche, stating it is likely to remain vapourware:

"It isn’t a product which you can use or test with, it’s a bunch of proposed algorithms. There isn’t even a fleshed out network protocol. The ‘experiments’ they’ve done are simulations," Cohen wrote.

Penning his comments in his Bog, Cohen said he doubted Volish claims that Avalanche, would fix transfer rate problems and disconnections.

He said the claims that BitTorrent actually had these problems in the first place were unfounded as the source code or the documentation on the BitTorrent web site would have shown that the real choking algorithms work nothing like this.

the Inquirer