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Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by starman@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"why would they call the AI llama? Isn't that an animal?"

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee -4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Because it has 'llm' in it? Makes way more sense than a music player formerly known as Winamp

Edit: it seems the company that owns it rebranded itself to llama last year. Still think it's a stupid choice since nobody knows their name and everybody knows Winamp. 'freeamp' would be the logical choice

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

they always had a llama as a mascot and as part of their slogan

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 4 points 6 months ago

Not always, since the Llama MP3 that came preloaded was introduced somewhere in 1.xx, yet that's still long enough (from 1998 to 2011 or so).