Google seems to be hitting their stride since the early days of their brave motto, and when they had done no-one no harm (and they had not caved to several government demands) they could be good, only now, yes paying an oem to force software on fresh installs is dirty, but people all around have probably already made up their minds about a company like google doing it.
As I see it, it's either: good, get in there and scrap with IE and Microsoft, burn that money, go go
Or: Jeez, google is becoming the image of a monolithic corporation
The book digitalizing fiasco is another example of this, enacting the brave visions of yesteryear means getting your hands dirty today. They are paying a lot of money to Sony now to introduce themselves to the unknown userbases out there. So, they are extending the cause and in 2009 proselytizing is still proselytizing, so I guess either buy google stock or start using bing (shudder)
I for one, can't wait until the new eee pcs roll out with google chrome OS.
I disagree categorically with the article title. Sustainable energy is the only sane way to exist and make tradition upon.
If in the short term, we find we can't implement some energy catching machine because of a scarity of an earthbound resource, someone will find another way. Human innovation is invincible.
...It's all a matter of games, namely whomever releases Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger first wins [My money]. I suspect the PSP, but FFIII is being released on the DS, so who knows? A portable FFVII at launch would clinch things for the PSP, but I doubt Sony is clued in enough to realize that...(though they do have an FFVII spin off RPG called Crisis Core, but that's due out in 2006, so it's not going to be a factor in determining early market share)
I regret to inform you all that I have quit Nullsoft. To many of you, this news may come as quite a surprise, while those who know me best, it's no surprise at all.
It's hard to describe the experiences of the last year. Nearly a year ago, we released Winamp 5.0 and finally reclaimed our user's hearts. It was a very proud moment for our entire team.
Since then, for varying circumstances, much of the team has left the company. It's been tremendously difficult to recover from the losses of such core team members and close friends.
Those of us left behind have tried our best to pick up the pieces and keep moving forward. Unfortunately, given our current environment, continuing to move forward has become tremendously difficult and frustrating, to say the least.
That said; I was recently presented a wonderful opportunity to work at Apple with the iTunes team. I hope to bring much of my experience from Nullsoft to Apple with the hopes of making a tremendous difference there.
The fact is; there's never a good time to leave something that you love so much. Given the state of things today it was appropriate for me start planning a life after Nullsoft.
I want to thank you for how much you've all contributed to making Winamp such a huge success. I'd like to appreciate the efforts of all the volunteers who've poured their heart and soul into this place, all the skinners and developers who helped the rest of us customize Winamp to our hearts content, and all my friends at Nullsoft who made working here more than a job, but a family.
I ask that all of you who work so hard, please, keep working hard. There are still a few of us left at Nullsoft and they're doing their best to keep this ship afloat. You're the only thing that can help them do it.
For those of you who would like to keep in touch with me, feel free to reach me at 'steve at gedikian dot com'. You can also keep tabs on what I'm up to by going to my homepage at http://www.gedikian.com.
I love you all and I can't thank you enough for making this chapter of my life so wonderful.
Peace.
-s
I would say the emotional overtone of his post is well understandable, Winamp certainly did build itself up an immense fanbase with it's great (and free) software, it's climb to the top of the proverbial heap of MP3 players showing dedication of the programmers that built and maintained it.
Farewell, last of the true Nullsoft team, and good luck in future ventures!
that just by possessing source code and attempting to sell it, Mr. Genovese is labeled a hacker, in the first line of the article no less.
It's a shame that hackers are the continual blacksheep of the tech world...
Slashdot Mirror
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For some of us, based on our needs this prediction is not too difficult to make Google Chrome inside of Google OS seriously, don't laugh.
>>What happens when Good and evil combine?
Religion. No, seriously.
Google seems to be hitting their stride since the early days of their brave motto, and when they had done no-one no harm (and they had not caved to several government demands) they could be good, only now, yes paying an oem to force software on fresh installs is dirty, but people all around have probably already made up their minds about a company like google doing it.
As I see it, it's either: good, get in there and scrap with IE and Microsoft, burn that money, go go
Or: Jeez, google is becoming the image of a monolithic corporation
The book digitalizing fiasco is another example of this, enacting the brave visions of yesteryear means getting your hands dirty today. They are paying a lot of money to Sony now to introduce themselves to the unknown userbases out there. So, they are extending the cause and in 2009 proselytizing is still proselytizing, so I guess either buy google stock or start using bing (shudder)
I for one, can't wait until the new eee pcs roll out with google chrome OS.
I disagree categorically with the article title. Sustainable energy is the only sane way to exist and make tradition upon. If in the short term, we find we can't implement some energy catching machine because of a scarity of an earthbound resource, someone will find another way. Human innovation is invincible.
...It's all a matter of games, namely whomever releases Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger first wins [My money]. I suspect the PSP, but FFIII is being released on the DS, so who knows?
A portable FFVII at launch would clinch things for the PSP, but I doubt Sony is clued in enough to realize that...(though they do have an FFVII spin off RPG called Crisis Core, but that's due out in 2006, so it's not going to be a factor in determining early market share)
...off of the winamp forums:
To all of my friends and loyal users of Winamp,
I regret to inform you all that I have quit Nullsoft. To many of you, this news may come as quite a surprise, while those who know me best, it's no surprise at all.
It's hard to describe the experiences of the last year. Nearly a year ago, we released Winamp 5.0 and finally reclaimed our user's hearts. It was a very proud moment for our entire team.
Since then, for varying circumstances, much of the team has left the company. It's been tremendously difficult to recover from the losses of such core team members and close friends.
Those of us left behind have tried our best to pick up the pieces and keep moving forward. Unfortunately, given our current environment, continuing to move forward has become tremendously difficult and frustrating, to say the least.
That said; I was recently presented a wonderful opportunity to work at Apple with the iTunes team. I hope to bring much of my experience from Nullsoft to Apple with the hopes of making a tremendous difference there.
The fact is; there's never a good time to leave something that you love so much. Given the state of things today it was appropriate for me start planning a life after Nullsoft.
I want to thank you for how much you've all contributed to making Winamp such a huge success. I'd like to appreciate the efforts of all the volunteers who've poured their heart and soul into this place, all the skinners and developers who helped the rest of us customize Winamp to our hearts content, and all my friends at Nullsoft who made working here more than a job, but a family.
I ask that all of you who work so hard, please, keep working hard. There are still a few of us left at Nullsoft and they're doing their best to keep this ship afloat. You're the only thing that can help them do it.
For those of you who would like to keep in touch with me, feel free to reach me at 'steve at gedikian dot com'. You can also keep tabs on what I'm up to by going to my homepage at http://www.gedikian.com.
I love you all and I can't thank you enough for making this chapter of my life so wonderful.
Peace.
-s
I would say the emotional overtone of his post is well understandable, Winamp certainly did build itself up an immense fanbase with it's great (and free) software, it's climb to the top of the proverbial heap of MP3 players showing dedication of the programmers that built and maintained it.
Farewell, last of the true Nullsoft team, and good luck in future ventures!
that just by possessing source code and attempting to sell it, Mr. Genovese is labeled a hacker, in the first line of the article no less. It's a shame that hackers are the continual blacksheep of the tech world...