But fans of the venerable software have launched a “Save Winamp” website and petition asking AOL either to keep Winamp alive or to open source its code.
“The history of digital music started with Winamp,” says the group, which includes nine developers who have pledged to improve Winamp if the source code is released. “Our goal is to convince Nullsoft [the AOL subsidiary behind Winamp] to release the Winamp source code and we will take it further in an open-source way.”
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