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		icelancer on Nov 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Winamp 2 in HTML5 He got a lot of crap at AOL for developing gnutella and other programs like WASTE. It was pretty contentious for a few years.

corford on Nov 6, 2014 [–]

Ah yes, forgot about WASTE. His corporate disobedience with gnutella etc. made me respect him even more. TBH I think everyone saw the writing on the wall as soon as they bought Winamp... difficult to picture JF happily sitting in a cubicle all day and listening to weekly management stand ups o_O

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