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What kind of snot-nosed brat takes millions from AOL and then publishes software perfect for ripping off Time Warner's entire catalog? Frankel, a grunge-dr
by ereyes01 10y ago
What kind of snot-nosed brat takes millions from AOL and
then publishes software perfect for ripping off Time
Warner's entire catalog? Frankel, a grunge-dressing slacker
from Sedona, Ariz., was a teenage college dropout in 1997
when he wrote Winamp, the first program that made playing
MP3s on a PC point-and-click simple.
How times have changed. There's now so many snot-nosed grungy slackers who could buy the author's house in cash, just to make a point :-)
- hardwaresofton 10y agoWhile it's certainly true that there are many more 20-somethings/30-somethings with lots of money in tech these days, I think the attitude he had is pretty rare. Most people wouldn't dare to release software that might get them fired because they just wanted to make it, and thought it should exist. Of course, it's well within the rights of a company to fire an employee for doing so, but pretty sure most tech workers these days just stay in line, relegate open source work to when they're told they can do it (nights and weekends), and gnash teeth but ultimately submit when a company shoves something they don't like down their throat. Then again, he did have "fuck you" money after the acquisition so...