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The uTorrent forums are all in a tizzy today as Bram Cohen (creator of bittorrent) and Ludvig Strigeus (uTorrent creator) announced that Bram has acquired uTorrent. The response has varies from negative to really fucking negative with the odd person being neutral and one or two telling all the haters to move along if they don't like it. Personally, I think the same thing. If you don't like it, go elsewhere. I use uTorrent and quite like it, but Azereus works just as well for me (at the expense of chewing up resources at a pretty good clip). Their combined statement after the jump.
This is Bram Cohen, the creator of the BitTorrent protocol, and Ludvig (Ludde) Strigeus, the writer of µTorrent.
Together, we are pleased to announce that BitTorrent, Inc. and µTorrent AB have decided to join forces. BitTorrent has acquired µTorrent as it recognized the merits of µTorrent's exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community. Bringing together µTorrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent's expertise in networking protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision will be the best BitTorrent client.
What does this mean for the µTorrent community? Not much, at least not at first. The intention is to maintain the website as it is, and keep the forums and community active. Moving forward behind the scenes, we will continue to develop µTorrent and will be using the codebase in other applications, especially ones where a fast, lightweight implementation is more suitable, such as embedded systems on TVs, cell phones, and other non-PC platforms.
The existent µTorrent and BitTorrent communities are immensely valuable to us, which is why we are announcing this here first to make sure you're all the first to know about the news. The plan is to continue to foster the health and growth of the community that has been critical to the success of µTorrent. Thank you in advance for your support.
Bram and Ludde Stolen from here .
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