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Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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Makes you wonder why they cannot open source the code instead of completely killing it.

Probably because the codebase stinks and releasing it would end up in multiple vulnerability discoveries.

I would have love for it to go open source maybe at that point Linux would have more visual music

Re: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

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post #11

Makes you wonder why they cannot open source the code instead of completely killing it.

Probably because the codebase stinks and releasing it would end up in multiple vulnerability discoveries.

As @thinkpad20 said. I bet there are a lot of people that would fix things, provided it is not systemic design errors that would require global refactoring.
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