People who try the new client will notice that it’s indeed very similar to Vuze, but without the ads and some other ‘cluttering’ features, such as DVD-burning. We also hope that a community will form again around the product.”
“Our main goals for BiglyBT is to keep it ad-free and open source, and to continue to develop it into an even better torrent client.
In addition to optimizing the code and releasing new features, BiglyBT is determined to keep the open source project alive, without any commercial interests. “We have invested such a large amount of our lives in the endeavor that we feel the need to keep the open source project active, for both our and our users’ enjoyment!” parg and TuxPaper tell us.īiglyBT, as they have named their new client, will continue where Vuze development stalled. While they are no longer working on Vuze, the pair have started a new Azureus branch, one they will actively maintain. The developers, who were also part of the original Azureus team, are not saying farewell to their code though. We can not speak to what their intentions are with the development of their product,” they inform us. “We are no longer involved in Vuze or Azureus Software, Inc. Perhaps not surprising, as two of the core developers, parg and TuxPaper, have left the project and moved on to something new. In recent years, however, things have gone relatively quiet, up to a point where Vuze development appears to have stalled completely. The feature-rich Azureus client, which later rebranded to Vuze, delivered just that. Back in the summer of 2003 a group of developers debuted a new torrent client, which they called Azureus.īitTorrent itself was still a relatively new technology at the time and users were eager to find new tools to transfer their files.