Acquisition
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| developer | David Watanabe |
| Current version | 132.7 (November 21, 2006) |
| operating system | Mac OS X |
| category | peer to peer |
| License | Shareware |
| German speaking | Yes |
| acquisitionx.com | |
Acquisition (engl. "Purchase," "purchase," "acquisition") is a file sharing - client for the Gnutella network, exclusively for the operating system Mac OS X is offered. The client uses the same program core as LimeWire ( open source ), but the graphical user interface is closed source . Acquisition is offered as shareware .
Acquisition sees its strengths in the close cooperation with the operating system and its iTunes music player . Acquisition automatically sorts downloaded files according to media type into the folders provided by Mac OS X for music, films and pictures; music is automatically transferred to the iTunes music library at the user's request.
The author of the software is the Australian David Watanabe , who also created the NewsFire feedreader and the BitTorrent client Xtorrent .
Development of the German version was stopped after version 113.2, the translator switched to Phex .
Web links
- Official website
- Source Code ( Memento from December 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Acquisition in German