Valve hired Bram Cohen

[aiobz]

Bram Cohen (author of Bit Torrent) was hired by Valve (Half-Life/Counter-Stirke/STEAM)

Official News by www.cstrike.de: (in German:)
( http://www.cstrike.de/fullnews.php?newsid=8806 )

(in English:)

Alfred Reynolds anounced on the HLDS_LINUX list that final beta testing will be done on the offline CS version and it will be released "asap" [*g* what else to use for translation]. If you have a full Steam cache (100%) you will be able to play w/o being online.

Together with the news that Valve hired Bram Cohen makes us hope that Valve is reacting to the massive and enduring community brickbat [criticism].

[hawkburn]

So are they hiring him to make sure the multiplayer protocol works alright? Thats all I could see, as he made an awesomely clean and fast network.

[evilmegaman]

This is somewhat old news. It wasn't released to the public until recently but it happened in November. Bram cohen should be helping to design a good distribution method for Steam.