P2P file-sharing ♥ open-source (and vice-versa)

SourceForge.net: All-Time Top Downloads

Four of the top five, six of the top eleven, and seven of the top twenty downloads of open-source software packages from Sourceforge are peer-to-peer file-sharing applications. (I've highlighted their rank and download tally below in red.)

Rank	Project Name	Downloads
1	eMule	114,308,075
2	Azureus - BitTorrent Client	61,415,864
3	BitTorrent	41,086,245
4	DC++	27,613,939
5	CDex	23,972,280
6	VirtualDub	19,547,457
7	ZSNES	8,969,182
8	eMule Plus	8,068,745
9	phpBB	7,947,400
10	Gaim	7,564,122
11	Shareaza	7,373,645
12	phpMyAdmin	7,133,215
13	Dev-C++	6,446,593
14	guliverkli	6,308,925
15	TightVNC	6,034,358
16	FileZilla	5,911,896
17	ffdshow	5,776,923
18	JBoss.org	5,703,843
19	ABC [Yet Another Bittorrent Client]	5,560,464
20	7-Zip	5,056,631

If LimeWire, another open-source P2P file-sharing application, chose to distribute their application through SourceForge, it would be in one of the top spots, as well. (Download.com reports over 56 million LimeWire downloads.)

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