Monday, October 23, 2000

Nullsoft and AOL: An Uneasy Marriage -- 2:23 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

SiliconValley.com has an interesting article on the uneasy relationship between AOL and Nullsoft. Last year AOL went insane and bought Nullsoft for $86 million (living proof that there is WAY too much money floating around). Since then Nullsoft has given AOL fits by releasing Gnutella (a peer-to-peer program similar to Napster) and a crack for AIM's ads. Although I find Nullsoft's .plan updates to be the most annoying things on the Internet since Britney Spears fan sites, I find it endlessly entertaining that they can make AOL so uncomfortable. Thanks Linux Today.

The Master comments: Hehe-the unholy alliance. Profit-mad AOL and profit-detesting Nullsoft. Gotta love it. I bet Frankel gives Steve Case nightmares all the time :-)

A.T. Hun comments: Must be tough detesting profits when AOL buys you for $86 million :)

The Master comments: Yup-they detest them NOW. When they took my $20 registration 3 weeks before going completely free, they didn't mind at all :-/

News for 10/23/2000

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