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Open-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repo (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did they comment on why it was deleted? I didn't see anything in the article. I recall the consensus was that they made so many mistakes the only way to fix it was deletion of the repo.

I also saw in one of the comments of the Arstechnica article that the one who pushed for open-source wanted to clean up the code before publishing. Management said no, the entire team got fired/left, and suddenly the code got published with all that commercial stuff left in. Sounds about right.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Based on the article, this is a train wreck of cosmic proportions. My guess is, the CEO panicked and went into damage mitigation mode.

Sounds like they’re trying to put out a titanium fire using only a bucket of water. What could go wrong.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Sounds like they’re trying to put out a titanium fire using only a bucket of water.

I have a new phrase to use in the future.