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Re:Winamp by kgwxd on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:55AM (#29315243)
VLC users beg to differ. Once Winamp was sold to AOL, the name was dead, I'm surprised anyone was willing to pay money for it after that.
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Re:Winamp by huhtenberg on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:51AM (#29315552)
Why would one pay any money when 2.95 still works perfectly?
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Re:Winamp by Fnoord on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:22AM (#29316567)
If its proprietary there's probably bugs in the binaries (even DLLs) which can be exploited. But IIRC Winamp was FOSS'ed at some point.
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Re:Winamp by kgwxd on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:39PM (#29333497)
I meant pay for the name. Did other owners of the name actually try to make it a paid-for product? Now that I think about it, was the original free?
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Re:Winamp by fps_doug on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @04:30AM (#29316056)
Unicode
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