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Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code

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Re: Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code

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Post by renegade-otter »

I remember as a hobbyist Windows programmer (Borland C++ Builder) I was really envious of the skills required to build something like Winamp - especially the UI. Back then, advanced learning resources and examples were effectively non-existent or at least, hard to find and stitch together.

Re: Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code

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Post by yazzku »

renegade-otter wrote: post #12

I remember as a hobbyist Windows programmer (Borland C++ Builder) I was really envious of the skills required to build something like Winamp - especially the UI. Back then, advanced learning resources and examples were effectively non-existent or at least, hard to find and stitch together.

The fact that you can re-skin it at runtime with such a wide variety of skins and load such a variety of plugins puts modern software to shame.

Re: Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code

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Post by pquki4 »

xxpor wrote: post #4

I'm skeptical this will be a fully free license based on the cagey language in the announcement :/

Very weird. They provide a very specific future date for this, and avoided using the term "open source". I can't recall any other company doing this. Most of the time, companies provide a github repository at the same time they make such announcements. Even for twitter, Elon Musk promised the algorithm would be opened, and then some time later it was just there. While generally it is a positive thing to see code being available, I wouldn't think too much into it until I can see the license and the code.
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