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Trumpet Winsock Creator Made Little Money

Posted by timothy on from the change-that-if-you-care-to dept.

omast writes "It appears that Peter Tattam, creator of Trumpet Winsock, got very little for this piece of software. For those of you who do not remember — or did not need it because were already outside the MS Windows world — Trumpet Winsock was a shareware program that provided TCP/IP functionality to Windows machines back in 1994-1995. It allowed millions to connect to the Internet back then; I was one of them. According to the article, Tattam made very little money from the program as it was widely distributed but rarely paid for."

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  1. Allowed windows to get online? by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, that's one early piece of malware ;)

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  2. DRM by RoFLKOPTr · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't get why he didn't just require an internet connection before Trumpet would run...

  3. Re:Updates to story by lewiscr · · Score: 4, Funny

    1994? I'm still waiting for September 1993 to end.

  4. Re:Why wait til now to pursue possible legal actio by BigSes · · Score: 3, Funny

    I work for Charles Darwin University.

    Is your school's biggest rival Oral Robert's Univesity?