Acquisition

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Acquisition

Developer(s)| Acquisition
Stable release| 2.2 (v223) (November 19, 2010; 15 years ago (2010-11-19)) [±]
Operating system| Mac OS X
Type| file sharing
License| Shareware (Single User from $25)
Website| http://www.acquisitionx.com/

Acquisition was a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer client designed specifically for Mac OS X. It supported BitTorrent and was based on LimeWire. A shareware product, it was priced from $25.[1] Acquisition was noted more for its focus on user interface[1] and integration with Mac OS X than for its originality in features, although it made full use of Apple's Cocoa APIs,[citation needed] and integrated with iTunes.[2]

Acquisition used parts of the LimeWire core libraries, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The graphical user interface and the open source, modified LimeWire core run as separate processes, communicating via Unix pipes, which allows parts of the software to be relicensed.[3] This follows in the footsteps of the precedent set by Apple's proprietary Xcode suite, which relies on open source components such as gcc and gdb.

Although Acquisition used parts of LimeWire code, it continued to work after LimeWire's decision to disable its client. It was able to do so because the code that allowed Limewire to disable their software was absent, as it was from its sister programs Cabos and FrostWire, among others.

Currently the website of the project reads 'Acquisition is no longer available for download.'

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tuaw(AOLNews): Acquisition 2
2. ↑ Mac BitTorrent Clients Reviewed
3. ↑ https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation

## External links

* Acquisition home page
* Acquisition's modified Limewire code, released under the GPL

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gnutella

Pioneers|

* Justin Frankel
* Tom Pepper
* Spencer Kimball
* Gene Kan

Technology|

* Tiger Tree hash
* Distributed hash table
* Query flooding
* I2P
* TLS
* NAT traversal
* Magnet URI scheme

Terminology|

* Overlay network
* Gnutella crawler

Software|

* GiFT
* GnucDNA
* gtk-gnutella
* KCeasy
* LimeWire (discontinued; V4 and modifications still work)
* MP3 Rocket
* FrostWire
* Phex
* Shareaza
* Cabos
* historical clients

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Peer-to-peer file sharing

Networks,
protocols|

| List|

* List of P2P protocols

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Decentralized|

* Ares
* BitTorrent
* FastTrack
* OpenFT
* Gnutella
* Gnutella2
* Overnet
* WinMX

Server-based|

* Direct Connect
* eDonkey2000
* Kad
* OpenNap

Anonymous|

* Freenet
* GNUnet
* MUTE
* Oneswarm
* Perfect Dark
* RetroShare
* Share
* StealthNet
* WASTE
* Winny

Single client|

* DAT
* Filetopia
* Fopnu
* Soribada
* Soulseek

Comparisons
of clients|

* Advanced Direct Connect
* BitTorrent
* Direct Connect
* eDonkey
* Gnutella
* Gnutella2

Hyperlinks|

* eD2k
* Magnet
* Metalink

Uses|

* Backup
* Broadcatching
* Segmented file transfer
* Disk sharing
* game & video sharing
* Image sharing
* Music sharing
* Peercasting
* Sharing software
* Web hosting (Freesite, IPFS, WebTorrent, ZeroNet)
* Legal aspects

Concepts|

| Privacy|

* Anonymous P2P
* Darknet
* Darkweb
* Friend-to-friend
* I2P
* Open Music Model
* Private P2P
* Seedbox
* Tor
* Virtual private network

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Internal
technologies|

* Distributed data store
* DHT
* Merkle tree
* Mix networks
* NAT traversal
* PEX
* Protocol Encryption
* SHA-1
* Super-seeding
* Tracker
* UDP hole punching
* µTP

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