AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music

I always imagined that nullsoft was angling to get immediately canned right after they leaked Gnutella into the wild.

I'm surprised they're still around.

Yeah, but how long will it last ?

If "standards of 1998" means proper parsing and display of metadata in various character sets from various sources (local file, internet streams etc), wide input format support, gapless playback and Replaygain support, relatively low resource usage, instantaneous search and unrestricted customizability then I wished more music players followed them.

You're right - it's an excellent product by today's standards. :)

There's a difference between being fired and being made redundant usually. (Although perhaps US terminology is different, in the UK usually "fired" refers to dismissal, redundancy is a different process with more compensation and a process employers must follow.)

Would you want to hire someone that live tweets everything that goes on at your firm? Most companies would rather not risk being held hostage (so to speak) by their employees if the management decides it needs to shut down a department or stop offering a product.

The fact that they didn't write it that way makes it seem like a deliberately misleading headline.