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Questions about BitRocket abound

by Dan Lurie (RSS feed) on Sep 5th, 2006



News is coming in via digg commenters and posts on forum threads linked therein which seems to indicate and give evidence that BitRocket uses code taken from the Transmission.app source without giving any attribution as required by the MIT license under which Transmission is released. These accusations are further supported by the fact that the developer of BitRocket, Julian Ashton, previously developed XFactor, a P2P application, which was proven to take code from the Poisoned project, again without proper attribution.

Update: Scott, our fearless leader, did some digging and found a post on the forum thread linked that I seem to have missed. According to at least one account, BitRocket does properly credit the source it uses.

Tags: bitrocket, bittorrent, code, digg, evil, poisoned, stolen, torrent, transmission, xfactor

Filed under: Gaming, Rumors

Bungie ponders a Marathon revival

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (RSS feed) on May 30th, 2006

In the latest weekly update from Bungie, a fan asks: "Marathon and XBLA (referring to Xbox Live Arcade): is it at all possible?" Bungie, via Frankie, responds "Of course it's possible, it's just not on any current agenda. If it's any consolation, many, many people think it's a good idea."

It sucks that the statement is technically closer to a denial than a confirmation, but that won't matter: any time Bungie even mentions its legendary (originally Mac-only, I'll have you know) first person shooter series it's an excuse for Marathon fans to break out the bubbly. Just make sure you're not around when the fans swap the champagne for an M-75 combination assault rifle and grenade launcher after they realize that after they* stole Halo from the Mac platform for their* Xbox platform, they* could also be about to steal the definitive Mac game.

*"They" of course refers to a certain software company beginning with the word "Micro" and ending with the word "evil".

Tags: Bungie, Evil, Marathon, Marathon 2: Durandal, Marathon Infinity, Marathon2:Durandal, MarathonInfinity, Microsoft

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