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Full props to Robert Kaye, the founder. He's been raising this child for 15 years now.
by NelsonMinar 9y ago
Full props to Robert Kaye, the founder. He's been raising this child for 15 years now.
- jacquesm 9y agoThey had a pretty close call at some point and nearly died. All is well that ends well. There also was freedb (http://www.freedb.org/ http://www.freedb.org/), not sure if that is still kept up-to-date.
- Leo_Verto 9y agoIt seems like MAGIX Software is now running FreeDB. As far as I understand it, it's data quality really isn't great and according to their statistics [1], they've only had just over 7,000 album requests last week. [1]: http://www.freedb.org/en/statistics__album_requests.14.html http://www.freedb.org/en/statistics__album_requests.14.html
- Leo_Verto 9y agoI don't think I know anyone who loves open data and transparency more than Robert. MusicBrainz is open source to the core and all the development as well as most of the business stuff happens on public IRC channels and our JIRA. It's been a crazy time lurking on IRC and seeing him juggle both huge technical problems that are worth more than a few blog posts as well as most of the business work for the last two years (until he recently hired someone to handle most of the latter). Of course one shouldn't make this too much of a personality cult and there's always been an amazing team working with him but I can't imagine anyone other than Robert taking MusicBrainz to what it's become today.