Nullsoft Founder to Leave AOL Subsidiary
From Associated Press
A young programmer whose software start-up, Nullsoft, was gobbled up by America Online -- and then caused numerous headaches for its corporate parent -- plans to resign after his latest piece of rebel code was pulled from the Internet.
Justin Frankel, 24, announced his intentions late Monday, less than a week after a file-sharing program called Waste was posted and then pulled from the Nullsoft Web site.
AOL, a unit of AOL Time Warner Inc., paid $86 million for the San Francisco company in 1999. Despite the new corporate ownership, Nullsoft’s team of programmers had maintained a freestyle hacker culture.
From Associated Press
