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Because no one wants to pay to keep it up?

by mhurron 13y ago

kristopolous 13y ago
I'd pitch in towards the $20 a year for the domain + vps.
- FedRegister 13y ago
  Pitch in to archive all of their releases or a donation to Archive Team[1] to archive all of their releases. [1] http://www.archiveteam.org/ http://www.archiveteam.org/
  - vomitcuddle 13y ago
    it's better to just let it die, unless they open source it. helping people find and use unmaintained software is a terrible idea.
    - aw3c2 13y ago
      It's better to archive software (well, everything!), regardless of what it is. Helping people find and use archived historical software is a wonderful idea. This comment is brought to you by https://archive.org/details/software https://archive.org/details/software
  - toomuchtodo 13y ago
    Already finishing up pulling the whole site into a warc/cdx and getting it to textfiles.com (aka ArchiveTeam).
    - BHSPitMonkey 13y ago
      Guess I'm slow. I'm halfway through recursively fetching download.nullsoft.com/winamp/ with the intention of seeding a new torrent on TPB. Is that what you grabbed?
      - toomuchtodo 13y ago
        No, grabbed *.winamp.com/winamp.com (full grab I'll send off to be added to archive.org).
- biot 13y ago
  Will you also indemnify AOL against all third party claims should someone use the software, it messes up their Windows 9.3 filesystem, and they end up suing... however meritless the case may be? Will you accept responsibility for acting as the DMCA contact and updating the site within the time limits provided in the Safe Harbor provisions should a skin, plugin, or visualization infringe someone else's copyright? Will you also update the apps for free to keep current with mobile and desktop OS changes? I'm guessing AOL has looked at all this and sees $$$ for both the business risk as well as maintaining software which they have deemed does nothing for their company goals. As a result, they are better off focusing their limited resources towards efforts which do further their goals.
  - saalweachter 13y ago
    This is why I really, really hate the modern, diversified corporation. The decision of whether to continue a product line within a large corporation is very, very different from whether or not a product line could keep a small business afloat. If you're a small business, the only question is "are we making payroll?". Within a large, diversified corporation, you have to ask if a project is as valuable as your alternatives. Mom-and-pop's with a sustainable business can't and don't say, "Yeah, this is profitable, but it'd be more profitable if we dropped everything we're doing and put our resources towards a different sector entirely." But it's entirely feasible and rational for a large corporation to look at it's hundred sub-businesses, axe the ten least profitable, and put the people to work on the ten most profitable. I'd be a lot happier if modern corporations were small, narrowly focused beasts, and not the monstrous conglomerations we have instead.
  - rschmitty 13y ago
    Would open sourcing the code get around that?
- wcchandler 13y ago
  Just give it a year and you might be able to... Domain Name.......... winamp.com Creation Date........ 1997-12-30 Registration Date.... 2009-10-03 Expiry Date.......... 2014-12-24
  - FooBarWidget 13y ago
    No he won't. All expired domains are immediately parked by the registrar. Parked domains are much more expensive than free domains.
wnevets 13y ago
seems weird that would be a problem for AOL.

Because no one wants to pay to keep it up?

by mhurron 13y ago

Because no one wants to pay to keep it up?

kristopolous 13y ago

I'd pitch in towards the $20 a year for the domain + vps.

FedRegister 13y ago
Pitch in to archive all of their releases or a donation to Archive Team[1] to archive all of their releases. [1] http://www.archiveteam.org/ http://www.archiveteam.org/
- vomitcuddle 13y ago
  it's better to just let it die, unless they open source it. helping people find and use unmaintained software is a terrible idea.
  - aw3c2 13y ago
    It's better to archive software (well, everything!), regardless of what it is. Helping people find and use archived historical software is a wonderful idea. This comment is brought to you by https://archive.org/details/software https://archive.org/details/software
- toomuchtodo 13y ago
  Already finishing up pulling the whole site into a warc/cdx and getting it to textfiles.com (aka ArchiveTeam).
  - BHSPitMonkey 13y ago
    Guess I'm slow. I'm halfway through recursively fetching download.nullsoft.com/winamp/ with the intention of seeding a new torrent on TPB. Is that what you grabbed?
    - toomuchtodo 13y ago
      No, grabbed *.winamp.com/winamp.com (full grab I'll send off to be added to archive.org).
biot 13y ago
Will you also indemnify AOL against all third party claims should someone use the software, it messes up their Windows 9.3 filesystem, and they end up suing... however meritless the case may be? Will you accept responsibility for acting as the DMCA contact and updating the site within the time limits provided in the Safe Harbor provisions should a skin, plugin, or visualization infringe someone else's copyright? Will you also update the apps for free to keep current with mobile and desktop OS changes? I'm guessing AOL has looked at all this and sees $$$ for both the business risk as well as maintaining software which they have deemed does nothing for their company goals. As a result, they are better off focusing their limited resources towards efforts which do further their goals.
- saalweachter 13y ago
  This is why I really, really hate the modern, diversified corporation. The decision of whether to continue a product line within a large corporation is very, very different from whether or not a product line could keep a small business afloat. If you're a small business, the only question is "are we making payroll?". Within a large, diversified corporation, you have to ask if a project is as valuable as your alternatives. Mom-and-pop's with a sustainable business can't and don't say, "Yeah, this is profitable, but it'd be more profitable if we dropped everything we're doing and put our resources towards a different sector entirely." But it's entirely feasible and rational for a large corporation to look at it's hundred sub-businesses, axe the ten least profitable, and put the people to work on the ten most profitable. I'd be a lot happier if modern corporations were small, narrowly focused beasts, and not the monstrous conglomerations we have instead.
- rschmitty 13y ago
  Would open sourcing the code get around that?
wcchandler 13y ago
Just give it a year and you might be able to... Domain Name.......... winamp.com Creation Date........ 1997-12-30 Registration Date.... 2009-10-03 Expiry Date.......... 2014-12-24
- FooBarWidget 13y ago
  No he won't. All expired domains are immediately parked by the registrar. Parked domains are much more expensive than free domains.

wnevets 13y ago

seems weird that would be a problem for AOL.