eDonkey2000's demise illustrates open source's problems in community-centric computing

Posted by dcparris on Oct 17, 2006 10:52 PM EDT
NewsForge; By Nathan Willis
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Somewhere on an old backup disc buried under a stack of magazines, I still have a copy of the eDonkey file-sharing client. Last month its creator, MetaMachine, agreed to give $30 million to the RIAA in order to duck threatened litigation. The eDonkey2000 Web site has since disappeared, replaced by a belligerent message intended to scare away visitors by implying that they are being watched. Why did eDonkey2000 fail in an arena where proprietary projects are still thriving?

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