Title: It seems like it would be great for open source projects with limited funding to use BitTorrent for downloads. However I only see a handful of projects using this model, e.g. LibreOffice and GIMP. Whereas a lot of Linux-based OSes just host their disk images over HTTP, which I imagine could incur substantial hosting costs over time.<p>Why don&#x27;t more software projects do this? Are there any big downsides to distributing torrents as opposed to traditional FTP&#x2F;HTTP downloads?
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