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Winamp Down for the Count
Artifex writes "BetaNews is reporting that the doors at Nullsoft have been closed: 'The last members of the original Winamp team have said goodbye to AOL and the door has all but shut on the Nullsoft era, BetaNews has learned. Only a few employees remain to prop up the once-ubiquitous digital audio player with minor updates, but no further improvements to Winamp are expected.'" The Register also has a story.
I guess they really are Nullsoft now.
cat employees.txt >/dev/nullsoft
"Here is to the greatest mp3 player ..."
What does iTunes have to do with WinAmp taking a dirtnap?
Ha-ha!
No, it wasn't AOL, or commercial business.
It was because the Llama really whipped Winamp's ass a couple of weeks ago.
I'm sure it surprised everyone when it happened.
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lol google dupe story did wtc lol google dupe story
So you could package it as closed source and sell it under a different name...
Wait, yeah, then they could make a internet service, you know... google 9.0 OPTIMIZED!!!!!1111
Wait......
Perhaps in three years we'll have Mozzila SoundSiren, which will spark a lawsuit threat, so the name will be changed to PhonicPhoenix, which will cause ANOTHER lawsuit, making the offical product AcusticAvian.
Learn something new.
Bullshit. I won't believe it until Netcraft confirms so.
Version 2? wow... that's way up there, I still use the command line based pre-release version 0.00001 beta ;)
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
Open Sourcing Winamp? What would they call it, XMMS?
--Forest C. Adcock--
You have searched for "U2 leaked CD vertigo.mp3
Would you like to purchase it for your gplayer?
Or more worryingly
You have searched for "Paris Hilton sex video"
Would you like a new packet of gTissues sent to your home?
If they copyright the name, suddenly we're going to have a problem where millions of source files around the world infringe on the use of the copyrighted word foobar. Personally I use it as a variable name in every project.
Hmm. Perhaps these guys should expect a call from McBride any day now...
Your forgot the apostrophe in "visualization's". :)
~Idarubicin
While the loss of Winamp is sad. Now, how can we go about losing RealPlayer and its disgustingly insidious spyware (which pisses everybody off and only works on the most clueless of users anyway)? Success would probably spawn parties all over the web. Too bad there's no AOL to ditch RealPlayer...
Can we vote them off the island soon?
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You're looking at this over the long term. Think about it in 6-month chunks (like the execs at AOL do):
Exec 1 buys a great little company for a reasonable price considering the boom (later known as a bubble). He gets a lot of credit and a promotion.
Exec 2 takes over and refocuses the division on its strengths - service. Exec 2 keeps costs down by discouraging research and development and promoting 'synergy'. Since AOL owns two of every type of software out there, they underfund half the company in the name of savings. Exec 2 gets a promotion.
Exec 3 takes the new position and wonders why Exec 2 was so highly regarded. Why underfund a product when you can cut funding all together and save even more. Exec 3 takes a CEO job with another fortune 500 company.
Exec 4 takes the job in 2005 and finds a small upstart making a great new music player. They buy the company for $200 million. Exec 4 gets a promotion.
They do the same fucking thing. Play MP3s.
My other car is first.
Pre-release verion 0.00001 beta?!? I'm still humming to tunes to myself using the Winamp Vaporware.
"They all have bugs, none of them are perfect, and arguing about that stuff is as stupid as Window$ users.."
Ow! The irony is making my stomach hurt!
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Btw. XMMS was named LinAmp in the late 90's until it has to be named XMMS....
Well technically 2, 3, and 5 were all prime and people used to say 1 was prime, but it's not considered to be prime anymore.