Winamp open sourcing drama (#19)

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@ -850,6 +850,16 @@ voat/voat - Scalability drama
[WICG/interventions/issues/18](https://github.com/WICG/interventions/issues/18)
[https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp](https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp)
* Summary
* Winamp have open sourced the original player's code
* They have chosen a custom license, forbidding forks, and distributing modifications among other things
* Github users are outraged, started arguing in issues, and opened several troll pull requests
* Issues with drama:
- [Please tone it down, I don't want Winamp to regret opensourcing](https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/56)
- [License violates Github TOS](https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/6)
[xenia-canary/xenia-canary/pull/180](https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/pull/180)
* Summary
* One of developers of Xenia, an Xbox 360 emulator, added an anti-feature that plays loud noises when loading ISO images, together with nagging messages about "piracy".