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Justin Frankel On AOL, Subverting The Status Quo
linuxbaby writes "Rolling Stone has an excellent feature on Justin Frankel, the creator of Winamp, Gnutella, Shoutcast, Waste, and other projects. The article calls him 'the world's most dangerous geek', and after years of being muzzled by AOL for igniting the pirate nation, Frankel is breaking his silence." The article ends by asking: "In many ways, Frankel's future encapsulates the debate over the future of the Internet itself. Does it become just a distribution system for corporate product or more of a way to subvert that corporate control?"
He did, and got in a lot of trouble for it. He then quit/was fired/god knows what really happened from AOL. Then AOL said they owned the code and it wasn't REALLY GPL'd. There was a huge article on this "slashdot" site about it. Ringing any bells?
if you really want to be free, use BSD and Apache license.
2 + 3 = 5 They're using Winamp's 2.x engine that allows 3.x skins to work with it. Along with a lot of extra crap that could be downloaded as a 3rd party plugin. Only reason why Winamp3 failed was it was shipped WAY to early.
winamp5 = winamp2 + winamp3 (cute huh), it's pretty much the 2.9 core with some enhacements from 3 (media library, but I think that was in 2.9) 3.0 skins, and some other stuff I'm sure I'm forgeting
This questions is so cliche that they actually made a ccg out of it
How about using the search function yourself? It's not too hard.
*shrug*
Rolling stone appears to be slashdotted, here's a mirror from the author's web site:
The World's Most Dangerous Geek"He was paid in AOL stock, not dollars. What are 400 million pieces of toilet paper worth? Enough.
400 sheets of toilet paper (Kleenex Cottonelle) on amazon.com go for $3.65
400 million pieces of toilet paper = $3,650,000.
http://www.blorp.com/music/Full%20Jams/031115-bren nankushner.mp3
www.dhorrocks2003.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/waste 3 million plus (2.7million unique) downloads of waste from here so far, just goes to show how good justin is...
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Humans are slow, innaccurate, and brilliant; computers are fast, acurrate, and dumb; together they are unbeatable
Check out this.
There is a way to be safe on a somewhat public network. I want to see how big it can be built....
Well, actually it wasn't open source...
Although there were messages that the source would be released "soon", the project was shut-down before the source was going to be released. So, all the Gnutella clients were completely reverse-engineered from the original, closed-source version.
So, Gnutella was technically not open-source.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
he uploaded Winamp (the name is short for Windows Amplifier
Actually, it's short for the Windows port of amp (An MP3 Player) for *nix.
Firstly, I don't work there anymore. Secondly, the employees have worked on OSS on company time. So the company uses OSS and contributes back. Sure, the main product isn't open source, but they have contributed back, and everyone has to make a dollar.
Refuse to make a statement in your sig!
Should have did this research before I posted. Looks promising.
You're talking nonsense. At any moment, the copyright holder of a GPL licensed program can turn around and say "Okay, I'm closing the source, any further releases will now be under this new license." The authors can't prevent people from distirbuting/modifying the code that is already available, but they can continue their own closed source development and make releases under any terms they wish.
If you hold copyright on a work, then you always have total control over it, and I don't know of any way you could give up that control even if you wanted to, except for assigning the copyright to someone else (in theory, there's "Public Domain," but that's hard to achieve in reality).
If you follow the links you get the droid speak...
ie. The droids are trying to stuff the genie back into the bottle. The fact that it "rox" and has been killed by the droid's speaks volumes.
Lindy is no more important than someone who hands tools to the guy who is tuning Spirits engine before takeoff.
That would have been Charles Lindbergh. Then Lindy double checked the work himself. He also personally oversaw the design and construction of the Spirit personally.
Lindy was a remarkable man. You should read "We" sometime.
George Mallory was another remarkable man, even though he "failed." We don't normally admit that "failures" are remarkable men. George made it impossible not to.
I fully understand the concept that every member of a team is important. I've never understood why the last run batted in is hailed as the "winning run" when the first run batted in was just as much the winning run as any other. There is also certainly a kind of hero worship I find repulsive.
KFG
Here's a couple of links:
The setup executable and The source code
Enjoy !
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Free your mind - Flush your toilet
He didn't say GPL, he said OSS. Some OSS licenses do not require you to publish the modified source code which is exactly the case here.
As the man said, everyone has the right to make money from their work. If they were trying to dominate the market place with anti-competitive business practices and shoddy merchandise I'd be the first to help you get the ladder for that mighty big horse you've got.
You can download waste
or
modwaste
Legalities? hmm, not my department. I only know about source code.