According to his plan on the Winamp website will Justin Frankel leave Nullsoft anytime soon. Frankel is one of the lead developers of the company that was purchased by America Online (AOL) a while back. AOL has however put a lot of restrictions on Frankel. Frankel developed the Gnutella Peer to Peer filesharing software and was forced by AOL to remove the download, also the recent release of Waste, software designed to securily transfer files and chat was pulled down by AOL.
Login: deadbeef Name: Justin Directory: /home/deadbeef Shell: /bin/tcsh Plan: June 2 2003 @ 10:03pm For me, coding is a form of self expression. It's probably the form I'm most effective at. Everything I code is arguably owned by the company. The company controls what I do with my code [in the past, it seemed I had freedom, but it turns out all of that was not really the case--rather, I was somehow avoiding the control illicitly (for 4 years)] The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leave. I don't know when it will be, but I'm not going to last much longer. I have nothing but respect for the company--I've just come to realize that it is time to do something different. |
There is no doubt Frankel will find another job, his ideas and the software he has created show his great programming skills and creativity. But at this moment he is still working for Nullsoft and we'll have to see when he gets out.
Source: Winamp
