Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft P2P

THE MAN behind BitTorrent, Bram Cohen has attacked Microsoft's attempt to build its own version of the software he designed.

Cohen has said that the project, coded named Avalanche that we wrote up last week on the British INQUIRER, was complete garbage and likely to remain vapourous. Snow kidding.

"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.

"Either they just heard 'tit-for-tat' and just made this up, or they for some odd reason dredged up BitTorrent 1.0 and read the source of that," he said.

Cohen said that BitTorrent worked this way Microsoft described when it was nowhere near functional yet, and the first test among multiple peers showed that it sucked. However it was promptly rewritten, way back in late 2001.

This gaffe alone makes Microsoft's simulation completely worthless.

You can have a look at Cohen's Bog here by smurfing over here.