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Nov. 12th, 2004 03:53 am
from deviantART.com: The end of WinAMP?
BetaNews has posted a fascinating article about Nullsoft's trials and tribulations since its acquisition by AOL. They write: 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.
Winamp's abandonment comes as no surprise to those close to the company who say the software has been on life support since the resignation of Nullsoft founder and Winamp creator Justin Frankel last January.
The marriage of Nullsoft and AOL was always one of discontent. After AOL acquired the small company in 1999 for around $100 million, the young team of Winamp developers was assimilated into a strict corporate culture that begged for rebellion. Although Nullsoft was initially given a long leash by AOL, It wasn't long until the two ideologies collided.
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... This is a shame. I love and use winamp and have since version 1.0. Heck, I even made a bunch of skins for it back in 1998.
After 3.0 sucked, I switched to iTunes and loved it. But then I switched back to winamp for version 5, and iTunes looks like an overly simplistic resource-hogging piece of cow dung.
*jack
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.
Winamp's abandonment comes as no surprise to those close to the company who say the software has been on life support since the resignation of Nullsoft founder and Winamp creator Justin Frankel last January.
The marriage of Nullsoft and AOL was always one of discontent. After AOL acquired the small company in 1999 for around $100 million, the young team of Winamp developers was assimilated into a strict corporate culture that begged for rebellion. Although Nullsoft was initially given a long leash by AOL, It wasn't long until the two ideologies collided.
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gaygeeks]... This is a shame. I love and use winamp and have since version 1.0. Heck, I even made a bunch of skins for it back in 1998.
After 3.0 sucked, I switched to iTunes and loved it. But then I switched back to winamp for version 5, and iTunes looks like an overly simplistic resource-hogging piece of cow dung.
*jack