...by wasting your employees' time and making them annoyed to even be there and less efficient, while simultaneously prompting the ones with more marketable skills to update their resumes. Genius!
The source code release – prior to the deletion yesterday – has been a somewhat bumpy ride. The initial release had a custom license, the Winamp Collaborative License (WCL) Version 1.0, containing the clause:
No Forking: You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software.
When they finally "improve" the Start Menu, Taskbar, right-click options, etc., to the point where third party utilities can't revert it to something resembling useful behavior, that's when I join the rest of my colleagues and switch to a Mac.
Nice job breaking it, heroes.
The amount of thirdpartyutilities and registry hacks I have to install on my new Windows machines in order to restore the functionality that Microsoft has taken away gets bigger and bigger with every new release.