In the last five months, Winamp, the iconic music player from the recent past, has been on quite a journey. It started with exciting news, which caused great enthusiasm, but sadly, things didn’t turn out well in the end. Without warning, Winamp deleted its entire GitHub repository, effectively ending the whole story around open-sourcing the music player code.
Clearly, the organisation had no clue what open source is actually about. The right to fork, modify, etc is all enshrined within open source.
The linked article unpacks a little of how that all went wrong.
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