WINAMP exits the historical stage --- aol-nullsoft marriage failed
-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Editor Press: Maybe you are still using it every day, maybe you still have it in your heart. Music Player "sees as the same concept, but you can't deny that the Winamp era of digital music play is gradually far away. In the past few days, the Null Soft department of the US online (AOL) is full of love, because here will send the last Winamp original developers. In the next day, AOL will only do some regular updates for Winamp, maybe we can't see the music of the sound of the sound.
-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ author: NinJai source: IT168.com
Maybe you are still using it every day, maybe you still think of it and "music player" as the same concept, but you can't deny that the WinAmp era of digital music is getting far away. In the past few days, the Null Soft department of the US online (AOL) is full of love, because here will send the last Winamp original developers. In the next day, AOL will only do some regular updates for Winamp, maybe we can't see the music of the sound of the sound.
First, why is AOL?
Also see AOL.
I remember that when I raised AOL, I wrote 10th anniversary for Netscape. Nowadays, it is also written a sacrifice, and it has also been mentioned to AOL. It seems that history always has amazing similarity. If Netscape has been in the "bundled" strategy of IE before going to the AOL, even if you die, you will die, then WinAmp is destroyed, and AOL is the culprit.
At the end of the 1990s, the AOL AOL, the AOL, and many software companies such as ICQ, Netscape were acquired. Annex, expand, swallow, AOL crazy interpretation of "Rolling Snowball" game. Today?
ICQ gradually impotence one into AOL hands, the proportion of users will show a decline in the year, and the development of software is also a mess. ICQ personally created even if the era of communication, now it is to funerally funerally send it in this era. Can you blame? I blame ICQ hot too early, at that time, instant messaging was completely cultivated by the user's stage. This is like a peach. I don't know how to see it today, the Israelites who have created ICQ will not be saddened, but we see the whisper when ICQ is going to raise the fire in China; can you blame? It is necessary to blame the wrong East home, marry a defeat.
Netscape seems to be more sad. In the past two years after being acquired, Netscape 6 is launched. After the release of a completely failed 7.1, it is simply disappearing without a trace, even a bubble is not taken. Since July last year, AOL began to cut Netscape developers in a large number, and hundreds of Netscape engineers have lost their rice bowls at the end of the year.
Nowadays, AOL wants to carry out their stream media, and the dream of paying music download services will also become bubbles. AOL is like a bottomless black hole that kills the talents, who has arrived in it, mediocre. Today, the spring of the Internet is coming, and the new round of wind's acquisition will start, I really don't know who will the next unlucky egg?
Second, WINAMP and AOL honeymoon and contradictions
All happiness in the world is similar, and unfortunately different. In 1999, AOL spent 100 million knives and bought NULLSOFT. AOL has just begun to say a hundred. High wages, luxurious office, the sovereign of WinAmp, everything is so wonderful. Nullsoft seems to find a solid relief and can take this big exhibition. However, in Nullsoft's marriage after the marriage of AOL, there is a "aesthetic fatigue" in both. AOL suspicion of Winamp developers do not work, Winamp's boss - Justin Frankel is experiencing love and past supporters - girlfriend saying that he is too loving, so abandon him; the previous hardcore Winamp fan is, he is "traitor".
If the bump between husband and wife is normal, then the things that have happened really let the relationship between the two is rigid and even rupture. After seeing the P2P music sharing software napster, Justin Frankel suddenly wanted to make a similar thing, so Gnutella was born in his hand secretly. Justin Frankel is certainly don't want AOL to know, so as not to bail, it is positioned into free software. In 2000, two programmers from Nullsoft put GNUTELLA in their own servers for free download. However, they walked wrong with a chess: written on copyright information - this program comes from nullsoft, AOL gives you excellent gates!
This caused a thorough dissatisfaction of AOL, because the AOL at that time was trying to merge with the Times Warner, and Warner, Warner, was filed in the Napster because of harming his own benefits. Of course, it is not okay, can't destroy the beautiful relationship with Times Warner because of a small NULLSOFT. AOL immediately gave him a pass: I immediately ended the development of the software, and declare that this is only the things that I have written with it, not the product of our AOL.
The result of the matter is that Justin Frankel finally took the ass to take the ass to take the ass to leave, and the an interview with a week is a big complaint - "80% of AOL is idiot!"
Third, add flowers on the brown or in the snow?
A long time has a discussion about the three people's people: Zhuge Liang went to Liu Bei or Go Cao Cao Miao? Note This discussion is such a more appropriate metaphor: Zhuge Liang voter Liu is to send a charcoal in the snow, and the Cao is a brocade. I don't know if Justin Frankel knows whether the handsome guy knows the story of the Three Kingdoms, but he is definitely in his heart: Is $ 100 million to sell NULLSOFT really worth? However, there is no such thing as it has no choice.
Every day, a small company is swallowed by a big company. Every day, there are small companies to take the initiative to make a big company. But this is indeed true that the big fish eat small fish or 1 1 = 2 problem, how to integrate the fresh blood absorbed, how to resettle new employees, how to deal with the relationship between overall interests and local interests ... these are The "giant" of the old people should think about the problem.
Summary: Long song crying, Winamp quietly exited the historical stage, without any hanging ritual. However, its ensembled has already been rubbed, foobar, VLC, Quintessential Player may become a new favorite. The software industry has never been lack of failure, and how many WinAmp can. Software industry is not tears, only reality.
