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  • Winamp died! They just released the final version. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_software/audio_players/winamp_v5.cfm

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
 #20051  by Eric
 Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:05 am
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5 ... 778.cfm</a>

Winamp died! They just released the final version. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio ... 5.cfm</div>

 #20059  by Zeus
 Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:12 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Is AOL just gonna destroy all the properties they buy (see Netscape)? They're basically saying "Microshaft, you own us, we suck, even though we bought products which basically invented these types of programs"</div>

 #20060  by Kupek
 Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:25 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Uh, if I recall correctly, the Mozilla project has large funding from AOL.</div>

 #20071  by Zeus
 Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:38 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Did they buy it yet?</div>

 #20072  by Kupek
 Mon Nov 22, 2004 6:33 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>You can't buy an open source project. At least a few years ago, a lot of the principles in the Mozilla project were employees of AOL.</div>

 #20077  by Zeus
 Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:43 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Ah, so they can't ruin it. Then there's hope :-)</div>

 #20081  by Manshoon
 Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:36 pm
<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.winamp.com/about/article.php?aid=10627">It ain't dead, Jim.</a>

You might want to check again before spouting off such things.</div>

 #20082  by SineSwiper
 Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:02 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Yes, behold the power of GNU. It is untouchable.</div>

 #20087  by Kupek
 Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:52 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Mozilla isn't any way affiliated with GNU (well, aside from the fact that they probably use gcc to compile it), nor is it even under the GPL. They have their own license.</div>

 #20089  by SineSwiper
 Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:12 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Close enough. There's just some minor changes from the GPL (in their MPL).</div>