Trumpet Winsock Creator Made Little Money 358
omast writes "It appears that Peter Tattam, creator of Trumpet Winsock, got very little for this piece of software. For those of you who do not remember — or did not need it because were already outside the MS Windows world — Trumpet Winsock was a shareware program that provided TCP/IP functionality to Windows machines back in 1994-1995. It allowed millions to connect to the Internet back then; I was one of them. According to the article, Tattam made very little money from the program as it was widely distributed but rarely paid for."
Allowed windows to get online? (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, that's one early piece of malware ;)
DRM (Score:5, Funny)
I don't get why he didn't just require an internet connection before Trumpet would run...
Re:Updates to story (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why wait til now to pursue possible legal actio (Score:4, Funny)
I work for Charles Darwin University.
Is your school's biggest rival Oral Robert's Univesity?