DaveWiner says what I’ve been thinking when I heard about bandwidth problems for podcast providers: “why isn’t [...] using BitTorrent?” ¹
Indeed. Podcasting clients should include torrent clients, and publishers should publish torrents instead of just the files. Swamp the P2P networks with legal MP3 files and prove the suckers wrong. 😄
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iPodderX has a torrent client included. The developer talks about it on CommandN.
– StefanBucher 2005-08-10 21:11 UTC
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Thanks for the pointer. I still feel very queasy about paying a license for software. I always compare it to the price of the operating system, which I bought together with the hardware. Upgrading my OS X costs about USD 130.
iPodderX costs about USD 30. I think that is very much overpriced.
Similarly, Path Finder costs about USD 35.
Now, consider that OS X consists of many tools, including iTunes and the Finder. The two replacements I mentioned already cost me 50% the OS X package. I don’t think that is fair.
I am still very much entrenched in the FreeSoftware spirit. 😄
– Alex Schroeder 2005-08-10 22:07 UTC
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Oh, yes. I agree.
– StefanBucher 2005-08-11 07:11 UTC
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Just today I found another interesting piece of software called Tinderbox.
USD 165.
Ugh. This is specially alienating for those of us that spend so much of our time improving free software, helping free software users – for free! Of course we also receive much in return: An operating system, editors, tools, browsers, mail clients, and so on – for free. In this gift economy, these price-tags and the proprietary nature of the packages offered are just... alienanting.
– Alex Schroeder 2005-08-12 12:55 UTC
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Alex
Unfortunately, the people who design and build Tinderbox need to buy groceries, pay rent, and get to work every morning. I sympathize with the price tag issue, but we do keep the price as low as we can – and sometimes have terrific sales, too.
You can find out more about Tinderbox at http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ . There’s an email list for information about special offers and such.
http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/
We’re always looking for people to write examples and case studies about Tinderbox; if money’s an issue, we can easily be paying you instead of vice versa. And Tinderbox files are XML, so they play nicely with your other tools.
– Mark Bernstein 2005-08-13 13:45 UTC
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I understand what motivates authors of proprietary software. I hope you also understand what motivates authors of free software.
– Alex Schroeder 2005-08-15 16:45 UTC