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Neowin interviews Ben Goodger, Justin Frankel

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the up-close-and-personal dept.

mr_tommy writes "Neowin has had the pleasure of talking to two prominent figures in the I.T. world. First, Ben Goodger, chief developer of the excellent browser Firefox, and secondly, Justin Frankel, creator of Winamp and many other products for Nullsoft. We've got Ben talking about Firefox, XUL, and the future at Mozilla; equally, Justin talks (humorously) about his past, Winamp, AOL, music, and what he's up to at the moment. Also, read on for some of his projects he thought about doing when he left Winamp, including setting up an interesting alternative to Windows 2000 based on Open Source software, similar to ReactOS."

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  1. Re:waitaminute by killjoe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mac OS X is based on open source. Open source saved them years of development time which is just what the parent poster was talking about.

    MySQL is able to sell commercial licenses because their product was GPLed which lead to it's widespread adoption.

    Red Hat makes most of their money off of support.

    I would also add to the list of the parent poster Novell. They in the end might end up making the most money off of open source (second most if you include IBM).

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    evil is as evil does
  2. Re:iPod Plugin by Microlith · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ogg uses unicode tags and those display fine (except in the media library.)

    So what's the difference between the reader in the playlist and main player, and the media library?

    Really it's quite sad, it'd be nice if winamp were... fixed.

  3. MS already did unix... by sp0rk173 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And they fudged it. Xenix, my (wo?)man. I honesty think microsoft has invested too much time and money into their own API's to ditch the core of it now. And if they do take FreeBSD's code, i'm not sure how that would be a bad thing. FreeBSD will live on. Microsoft will (for a change) have a solid code base. If MS feeds patches back in, great. The FreeBSD coders won't submit crap code (forgoing any kind of "fuck you, open source bitches!" code). If MS sends nothing back, meh - big deal.

    One thing that people seem to never realize (or just plain ignore) about FreeBSD is that it's all about research and putting out a good, rock-solid OS. They don't want to take over the world and displace the big boys.

    Look what you've did, you've gone and pulled me off topic.