Justin Frankel On AOL, Subverting The Status Quo

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday January 21, 2004 @02:08PM from the null-to-aol dept.

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?"

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Just another programmer by superpulpsicle · 2004-01-21 14:43 · Score: 0, Troll

I give him full credit for building/putting together some of the best programs, but he can't be that dangerous if he doesn't innovate.

1.) winamp... please there are a ton of dos based binaries that play mp3s first.

2.) gnutella... napster first.

etc etc