TRON’s Financial Incentives for Torrent Users Will be Private by Design
When the relatively new cryptocurrency TRON acquired BitTorrent a few months ago, there was ample speculation on the future of the company. As the main developer of both uTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline, future decisions will impact a userbase of roughly 100 million people. After a brief period of silence, TRON’s founder Justin Sun assured the public that BitTorrent was not going anywhere. Instead, he proposed a new project that...
UK Copyright Trolls Reactivate, Five Years After Alleged Movie Piracy
During September 2014, TorrentFreak became aware of a case that had appeared before the Chancery Division of the High Court. TCYK LLP v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd featured a company behind the Robert Redford movie The Company You Keep and ISP Sky. The former claimed that some of Sky’s Internet subscribers had infringed TCYK’s rights and should be pursued for damages. That TCYK were testing the waters in the UK...
How many programming languages is too many for one project?
One great thing about programming languages is that there is such diversity that you can choose the best one to solve any given problem. But sometimes the worst thing can be when projects take advantage of this and build applications or systems of applications that require domain knowledge of many different languages. When this happens, it can be difficult for everyone, or even anyone, to fully understand the scope of the project....
I've got 99 problems but Linux ain't one
As the global technology evangelist director of Red Hat’s portfolio product marketing group, I have a secondary focus on portfolio architectures. I research customer successes in solution implementation using our open source technologies, then produce generic higher-level architectural content so that others may benefit from these real-life experiences. read...
How to use multiple programming languages without losing your mind
With all the different programming languages available today, many organizations have become digital polyglots. Open source opens up a world of languages and technology stacks developers can use to accomplish their tasks, including developing and supporting legacy and modern software applications. read...
