Anti-closed-source FUD, and a horrible analogy to boot. Just because you can read the contract doesn't mean you understand what the legalese means. And now you're back to trusting an outside party again. You've used uTorrent, so that means you're using Windows directly or via an emulator like WINE. My money's on directly. Windows is a closed source OS, yet you trust it enough to run it. And that's a much bigger risk than one small program. So you've already given up your point. If you're really this zealous about open source, you should be running Linux or a BSD or the like. Two final things. 1) Stop throwing around strawmen like that. 2) If Azureus works better for you then awesome. I've got no problems with that. I used Azureus for a long time before switching to uTorrent, and I've got a kick-ass machine with a gig of RAM. But take a few deep breaths and step off the "Open Source Will Save The World" soapbox. Open source projects are great and have a lot of uses. (Hell, I just went through the diffs on the new sendmail build today to see what the security fixes actually were, since Sendmail's advisory was so freaking vague.) But open source does not automatically equal quality. Open source does not automatically equal safety. And especially, open source does not automatically equal BETTER. i have no problem with what you said at all. but your thing doesnt hold water. OPENGL is opensource and its as famous and BETTER than DirectX, then why not everyone use it? because Microsoft owns Windows and DirectX is part of windows. so game developers prefer to make M$ happy and earn money, some very smart people like ID SOFTWARE used OPENGL regardless and created DOOM 3, a fantastic game that rivals most engines using DirectX. again XVID is better than DIVX, 90% of all video warez are XVID, do you think a cracker cannot use a cracked version of DIVX 6 if it was good and do DVDRIPS? nope, XVID quality is better! guess what....WINRAR....support compress to RAR and ZIP only, yet 7-ZIP another perfect OPEN SOURCE software can compress in 7Z and many many other formats. you can get POWERARCHIVER (pay for it) and does the same as 7-ZIP but why when you can get it free and without installing crap. ?? i could go on about OPEN SOURCE quality, but i have no intention and or the time. because we're traveling in the same train but on different routes. just dont think im not keeping an eye on uTorrent i might and most probably will change my mind in the future if all goes well because i loved uTorrent. in the meantime, AZUREUS is with me, i'm happy with it and i trust it.......don't ask.....i just do. the developers have nothing to do with PEERFACTOR and thats enough. a killer can go to prison, but many killers once out go on a killing spree again. Peerfactor is such a company i dont trust and since Ludvig had the "brilliant" idea to even talk to those guys to make a couple of $$ then to me uTorrent becomes a suspect as well. do i trust uTorrent? NO, do i trust ludvig? YES do i care about uTorrent when there are 10000 alternatives? MAYBE. why i dont use uTorrent if i trust Ludvig then? i dont know. must be paranoia. or perhaps intelligence. time will tell. in the meantime...choices have to be smart, and for a guy that created the most incredible torrent software around i can only say Ludvig choice was not a smart one, or perhaps for him but not for most of us. .DLL my a$$.