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Developer of peer-to-peer file sharing software GNUTELLA found shot dead.
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Posted on 07/09/2002 7:02:30 PM PDT by bonesmccoy
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To: Poohbah
They have no clue.
To: Travis McGee
I think not having a clue is a requirement to be a manager these days :o)
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posted on
07/09/2002 7:51:54 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
To: Motherhood IS a career
Depression is not uncommon among the exceedingly intelligent.Kind of scary.
What do they know that I don't know?
Oh well...I guess I should be glad that ignorance is bliss.
To: bonesmccoy
What a moron.
Nothing "tragic" or "romantic". Like Cobain, just a stupid waste of a life.
To: eddie willers
Various forms of mental illness stalk the very intelligent.
Depression is a clinical disease, just as schizophrenia is. Think of John Nash from "A Beautiful Mind." Very bright...and for a long time, very sick.
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posted on
07/09/2002 7:54:15 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
To: vikingchick
From bayarea.com
Posted on Tue, Jul. 09, 2002
Pioneer of music-swapping site Gnutella dies
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gene Kan, one of the pioneering developers of the file-sharing technology called Gnutella that took music swapping beyond the realm of Napster, has died. He was 25.
Kan died as a result of an accident, according to a statement released Monday by his employer, Sun Microsystems Inc. At the request of his family, no further details of his June 29 death were being released, Sun officials said.
He was among the first to develop an open source version of the Gnutella protocol -- a small bit of computer code used by a distributed network of PCs for massive file-sharing duties.
Gnutella came along as Shawn Fanning's Napster program became mired in lawsuits with the recording industry. Kan and a small clutch of developers honed the Gnutella protocol so that programmers around the world could make their own home-brewed computer applications -- each speaking the same language and capable of pointing users to shared music, video and software files.
The main difference between the Gnutella network and other file-sharing programs was a crucial one. Gnutella has no company to sue or central servers to shut down with a court injunction.
``There is no head to the Gnutella dragon,'' Kan told The AP in 2000. After that interview, Kan quickly became the ad-hoc spokesman for Gnutella's development during file-swapping debates surrounding Napster.
Kan lived in a Belmont home with other software developers during Gnutella's early days. There living room was strewn with desktop and laptop computers networked with high-speed cables as they tested early incarnations of Gnutella.
The group didn't invent Gnutella from scratch, Kan and company merely brought it into focus after an early version of a program appeared briefly on the Web site of Nullsoft, a subsidiary of America Online. The Gnutella code was only available briefly, but that was long enough for Kan and other developers to download it.
Kan acknowledged that some unauthorized files were being traded via the Gnutella network.
``How users make use of it, I hate to say it's not our problem, but it really isn't,'' Kan told the AP in an interview.
The simple Gnutella protocol spawned a legion of file-sharing programs that remain popular today. The programs LimeWire, BearShare and Phex all make use of the Gnutella engine.
In June 2000, Kan started Burlingame-based InfraSearch Inc., a peer-to-peer search engine technology company that he co-founded. It attracted high-profile investors such as Netscape alumni Marc Andreessen and Mike Homer. Most recently, Kan worked on advanced projects like JXTA at Sun Labs, pushing the envelope in distributed computing.
JXTA is an open source set of computing instructions that allows various devices connected on a network, from cell phones and wireless Palm Pilots and PCs, to communicate in peer-to-peer fashion.
``Gene contributed much to the industry, specifically in the peer-to-peer space,'' Sun said in the statement. ``Gene brought new ideas to the organization and stretched our thinking. Gene was a trusted friend and colleague, and we will miss him greatly.''
A memorial fund is being established in Kan's name at the University of California, Berkeley's College of Engineering, where Kan graduated in 1997 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science.
No public services are planned.
To: weikel
I wouldn't put it past someone in the RIAA or MIAA to have him whacked I'm shocked to hear allegations of thugs in the music business...
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posted on
07/09/2002 7:57:15 PM PDT
by
weegee
To: weegee
Well Suge Knight
is out of prison I hear.
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posted on
07/09/2002 8:01:22 PM PDT
by
weikel
To: weegee
I'm shocked to hear allegations of thugs in the music business... Racists, sure....but thugs?
To: bonesmccoy
the real qustion is...
what did Bush know and when did he know it?
Seriously though, what a sad waste.....I have often wondered why the some guy like this would take his life while some thrice convicted pedophile/rapist continues to stain the air we all share....
To: weikel
They aren't above it.
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posted on
07/09/2002 8:07:11 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
To: bonesmccoy
Not suicide - Recording industry hit.
OK - so it's wild speculation, but it wouldn't surprise me....
To: bonesmccoy
G, nu tella what could have gone wrong.
To: bonesmccoy
Comments? Dammit, Bones! I'm an end user, not a code monkey!
To: TheBattman
The answer's not in the box, its in the band.
To: eddie willers
Oh yes eddie, THUGS!! There is a book out about Death Row Records( the name escapes me at this moment, which records the doings of Suge Knight, let's just say this guy is no Col. Tom Parker or Brian Epstein, give you a hint, there were times when Knight and his friends in the Bloods, would get some poor soul, and have him beaten up, right in the middle of the offices of Death Row Records. Very entertaining and scary reading.
To: bonesmccoy
Not to be paranoid or anything, but the record industry has always been run more or less by Mafia types. I am pretty certain that the "official" cause of death will be called a self inflicted gunshot wound. Technically it is correct. By disturbing the recording industry he may have brought this upon himself.
To: eddie willers
What do they know that I don't know?
We see the world as it truly is and we realise that we are surrounded by morons -- so many that there is no hope for humanity to ever reach its full potential. Those who can adapt do so by becoming incredibly cynical and finding pleasure in shattering the illusions of others.
(Yes, the above is intended to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Go away)
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posted on
07/09/2002 9:08:11 PM PDT
by
Dimensio
To: mdittmar
threats of being sued by has-beens wacko jacko and mariah (periah) carey?
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; *tech_index
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