AOL Open Sourcing Audio & Video Technology

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 3, 2005 @04:48AM from the giving-back-to-america dept.

daria24 writes "BetaNews says that AOL is open sourcing Winamp AVS and Milkdrop, two popular Winamp plug-ins, and its Ultravox streaming media platform (the successor to Shoutcast). 'Despite helping to launch the Mozilla Foundation and releasing the code to its AOL Server software, America Online has never been synonymous with open source. But a number of new initiatives could change AOL's proprietary image, as the company strives to reach a broader audience on the open Web.' The next-generation AIM release will also be an open platform, which AOL says 'could rival even Mozilla due to its scale and the massive AIM user base.'"

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a close-source AOL will be better by rozz · 2005-06-03 05:21 · Score: 0, Flamebait

the best thing AOL can do for the international community and for the Internet, is to "close source" their users .. just keep them on a sepparate "AOLNet" and everybody will be happy
i'm ready to pay a monthly subscription to AOL for that ! ;)

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