After Leopard was released, and Iwan, Marcelo, and I got our hands on it, as a team we decided to make SolarSeek Leopard only. This decision came after several improvements with Objective-C 2.0, Interface Builder, Core-Data, and a few other components. There have been no commits into the main trunk, as we have been making all new commits to the new Leopard branch. For those interested, it can be found here.
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Without any usable release – who cares if it’s leopard only or not.
Who cares anyway? Even a release wouldn’t improve the situation as there is no legal way to use this software in almost any country on the western hemisphere.
So it might be a nice peace of software some day – and it looks really promising – but all in all it might just be a huge waste of time.
Posted by prostafink – Nov 22, 10:41 – Permalink
@prostafink The SoulSeek network is perfectly legal if you share/download/upload legal content.
Posted by xfer – Nov 22, 11:51 – Permalink
As if anyone has ever seen legal content in there…
I don’t think anyone can honestly say that the purpose of such networks is the distribution of legal content. One can hardly find such stuff – or even distinguish it from the other stuff.
Posted by prostafink – Nov 22, 12:58 – Permalink
You know what, if you think this project is a huge waste of time, then why express your opinion in the first place? Isn’t it a waste of your time that you even bothered to comment and make you statements (which we really don’t care what you think when their pessimistic like that). We all have lives. I’m a student, learning programmer, and work part time, Marcelo is a programmer for a company, and Iwan is a web designer working for a web design firm in Europe. So, rather than tell us why you think this project is a waste of time and how “there is no legal way to use this software in almost any country on the western hemisphere” why don’t you try and do something about it by helping us out or the network.
Posted by Jon Kantro – Nov 23, 00:13 – Permalink
Yeah, that’s the kind of response I really like…
I don’t think it’s a waste of time talking about what’s the issue about such software. And saying that the purpose of soulseek was never something legal isn’t really pessimistic – it’s just realistic.
The unspoken question is: why aren’t you guys working on some solution one might use one day. Right now no one will pay for this app, ‘cause of the legal issues. It really looks like you guys know how to make software, but no clue about “the other part” of business.
Posted by prostafink – Nov 26, 10:26 – Permalink
Uhm SolarSeek has been free and will always be free. Why else would it be open-source?
Posted by Jonathan Kantro – Nov 26, 11:52 – Permalink
I really hate people that complain about how peer to peer isn’t legal,I mean who gives a shit? what trying to save the pain in the ass music industry that enforces DRM
Posted by Ben – Oct 12, 18:02 – Permalink