Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Post by diggan » Fri, Feb 03, 2017, 12:51 PM UTC

Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)
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Re: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Post by kichik » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 2:04 AM UTC

This is from 2004. What's new?

Re: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Post by eli » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 2:10 AM UTC

There's a really excellent long piece in Ars from 2012 about Nullsoft/Winamp that has the advantage of nearly a decade more perspective: https://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest...

The following year, AOL officially killed the Winamp product.

Re: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Post by LeoPanthera » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 2:11 AM UTC

The Nullsoft brand was sold to Radionomy in 2014. nullsoft.com now redirects to winamp.com, which astonishingly still exists.

Re: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Post by LeoPanthera » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 2:11 AM UTC

eli wrote: post #3

There's a really excellent long piece in Ars from 2012 about Nullsoft/Winamp that has the advantage of nearly a decade more perspective: https://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest... The following year, AOL officially killed the Winamp product.

WinAmp is back. http://www.winamp.com/

Re: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Post by gdulli » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 2:15 AM UTC

kichik wrote: post #2

This is from 2004. What's new?

A whole generation of a potentially interested audience who was not yet aware of Nullsoft in 2004.

Re: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Post by ereyes01 » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 2:18 AM UTC

  What kind of snot-nosed brat takes millions from AOL and
  then publishes software perfect for ripping off Time 
  Warner's entire catalog? Frankel, a grunge-dressing slacker
  from Sedona, Ariz., was a teenage college dropout in 1997
  when he wrote Winamp, the first program that made playing
  MP3s on a PC point-and-click simple.

How times have changed. There's now so many snot-nosed grungy slackers who could buy the author's house in cash, just to make a point :-)

Re: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Post by symlinkk » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 2:21 AM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #4

The Nullsoft brand was sold to Radionomy in 2014. nullsoft.com now redirects to winamp.com, which astonishingly still exists.

I remember reading a few posts on the Winamp forums around a year ago that they were revitalizing development on Winamp, not sure if that went anywhere though.

Re: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Post by bricss » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 2:23 AM UTC

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Re: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Post by Teever » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 2:33 AM UTC

symlinkk wrote: post #8

LeoPanthera wrote: post #4

The Nullsoft brand was sold to Radionomy in 2014. nullsoft.com now redirects to winamp.com, which astonishingly still exists.

I remember reading a few posts on the Winamp forums around a year ago that they were revitalizing development on Winamp, not sure if that went anywhere though.

I have a feeling it isn't.

I used to have winamp on my android phone and when I got a new phone a few months ago I discovered that they had removed winamp from the store. Which is unfortunate because winamp was surprisingly great on android too.