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Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows (about.winamp.com)

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[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

My guess is this is a win32 program or a codebase that is very Windows specific. It was probably discarded because it did not port very well to other platforms. Again, just a guess.

Still, it's nice to see such a historicaly popular program get its source officially released.

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