Shareaza
Shareaza is a Windows-based [multi] Peer-to-Peer client which supports the Gnutella, Gnutella2, eDonkey2000, and BitTorrent network protocols.
It was developed by Michael Stokes.
In late 2002, Shareaza's founder introduced Gnutella2, a reworked version of Gnutella with many fundamental updates to the protocol, and added support for it to Shareaza. This drew a lot of criticism from other Gnutella developers, because Gnutella2 was developed without any outside help or conferral. However, the Gnutella2 network has been doing well so far despite the fact that it was developed privately, and is now supported by Shareaza, MLDonkey, Adagio, Gnucleus, and Morpheus. Opponents of the name "Gnutella2" refer to it as 'Mike's Protocol', or 'MP' for short.
On June 1st, 2004, Shareaza 2.0 was released, along with the source code, under the GNU GPL, making it free software.
