{"id":236,"date":"2002-09-03T00:03:57","date_gmt":"2002-09-03T00:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2002-09-03T00:03:57","modified_gmt":"2002-09-03T00:03:57","slug":"20020903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2002\/09\/03\/20020903\/","title":{"rendered":"2002\/09\/03"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ray Ozzie replies<\/A>.<\/P>

Another nail in the frequently-nailed coffin<\/A> of Napster<\/A>.  Here’s something I don’t understand. Ignore the Napster legal history for a moment. Let’s talk about software development. About two years ago, Napster and Bertlesmann announced that they would deliver a version of Napster that would charge money and only provide music legally. Now, it seems like they ran out of money before they could even deliver that. What I don’t understand, exactly, is why they couldn’t build this thing that sells Bertlesmann music with two whole years of work and a whole team of developers? When Fanning had built the original thing<\/A> in three months? (Then again, the story here sounds incredibly familiar. One guy builds version 1 in a few months and then a team of 15 can’t build version 2 for years and years. Tell me you haven’t seen that<\/EM> movie before.)<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ray Ozzie replies. Another nail in the frequently-nailed coffin of Napster.  Here’s something I don’t understand. Ignore the Napster legal history for a moment. Let’s talk about software… Read more “2002\/09\/03”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s83KNI-20020903","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}