Slyck's Interview with KCeasy

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KCeasy is a front end client that uses the giFT daemon to connect to OpenFT and Gnutella. Originally, it also connected to FastTrack, however Sharman saw this as an intrusion and ordered KCeasy to disable this feature. Despite this temporary setback, KCeasy has reinvented itself and has begun to sprawl in the P2P community. Thanks to our moderator Juggalo15 for conducting this interview and for the developer of KCeasy for participating.

Juggalo: Where did you come up with the name KCeasy?

KCeasy: When I started writing KCeasy it was just a small personal project of mine and I didn't really care for a name. So I simply used an old DOS program which generates random words and picked KCeasy from the results.

Juggalo: How did you feel after Sharman put a stop to the FastTrack portion of your program?

KCeasy: I don't care much for FastTrack these days. Development on the FastTrack plugin for giFT started over a year ago and since then the quality of the files on the network has declined a lot. The plugin fulfilled its original purpose of providing FastTrack access to non-windows platforms and is in a stable state now. There hasn't even been much development within the last few months. So removing the plugin from the KCeasy distribution wasn't much of an issue to me. Certainly not enough to risk an expensive legal dispute............

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Edited by Ken

Reason: Partial quotation of Slyck article is sufficient, along with link to the full article.