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Roxio To Concentrate on Online Music Business

Posted by michael on from the house-built-on-sand dept.

DevGhost writes "Roxio Inc. said on Monday it would change its name to Napster and focus on the money-losing online digital music service, selling its profitable CD and DVD software division to Sonic Solutions for $80 million."

6 of 288 comments (clear)

  1. lost in space by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    first: 80 million? for a tool to get free music from
    your friends?
    second: where has all the good music gone? can't
    sell if you got nothin' to sell ...
    third: i think i'm gona get a synti and a drum
    maschine. "doityourself" seems to be the moto of the
    day (can't count on the koreans and japanese forever
    and the chinese arn't going to innovate anytime
    soon)

  2. Re:MBA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes; also see:
    Linux Torvlads (beware: ugly as hell)
    CowboiKneel (beware: convicted paedophile)

  3. The MC Hammer business model by grunt107 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let's buy something money draining, and get rid of the profitable enterprises.

    They should have changed their name to 'Rapster'.

  4. Re:MBA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Since the nerds are the ones who make the products that actually do something

    Yes, writing the 10,242nd windowmanager for X is a product that does something, but in order to sell it to companies (who's sales representatives are most often hot, hot, hot vixens), you will need a competent selasperson (p.e. a sexy gay nigger).

  5. Look here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    CLiCK H ErE

  6. Re:MBA by 16K+Ram+Pack · · Score: 0, Troll
    go on then...

    seriously. someone told me that MBAs teach you nothing about really running a business.