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[Dave Monroe]

AOL axes Nullsoft - whither Winamp, Shoutcast?
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Thursday 11th November 2004 09:37 GMT

AOL split itself into four this week, and one of the
casualties is the team that provided its musical
credibility. And of course, we don't mean Spinner.com.
After hemorrhaging employees for months, only three
Nullsoft employees are left after the shake-up.

The team, which AOL acquired in 1999 for $100m - two
years after the then 18-year old Justin Frankel -
first released his Winamp MP3 player for Windows.
Nullsoft also founded the streaming community
Shoutcast, which has provided an arena for small
webcasters for several years, providing 70m hours of
radio a month. Nullsoft can also take the credit for
AOL-disapproved projects such as P2P software
Gnutella, which was released for one day only in
source code form and WASTE, a decentralized encrypted
file system named after Thomas Pynchon's secret postal
service....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/11/aol_axes_nullsoft/


		
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