Wayne Rosso leaves Optisoft
p2pnet.net News:- Wayne Rosso, former president of Grokster, is now also the former president of Spain’s Optisoft.
Rosso resigned after he and Optisoft founder Pablo Soto had major disagreements over strategic decisions, the direction in which the company’s Blubster and Piolet p2p file sharing applications should go, "and other issues," he told p2pnet.
Rosso turned Grokster into a major presence in the commercial p2p file sharing arena, leaving the company last October to run Opstisoft.
One of the p2p industry’s more flamboyant characters, he says he’s now involved in a new p2p venture and is, "in the midst of putting it together".
He told p2pnet he couldn’t go into detail because of a number of confidentiality agreements but, "this will change the entire p2p landscape in a new and positive way".
He and his new partners "are very high on this," he says, adding:
"We have our eye on some technology and concepts that’ll reach far beyond the file sharing that we have today."
A music and technology industry veteran, Rosso was a founding member of P2P United, the trade association for the peer to peer technology community.
June 8th, 2004 at 4:13 pm
Rosso’s vision of P2P is not unlike Sharman’s vision. They both want to setup a system that would charge users for downloading files.
June 8th, 2004 at 4:37 pm
That’s definitely very good news for manolito p2p.
June 8th, 2004 at 8:11 pm
Now that is a B.S. comment.
June 8th, 2004 at 9:31 pm
Agreed, Pablo being “The Man” he is, i respect his decision. It was probably for the best for MP2P and its users. Last thing they want is it to turn into something similar to the state of FastTrack.
June 8th, 2004 at 11:06 pm
Good riddance to a self serving moronic obscenity who disgraced Optisoft every time he imposed his fat slothful self into the news
June 9th, 2004 at 10:53 pm
rosso is a athoritarian oligarchy sell out
June 10th, 2004 at 7:12 pm
Meow!
August 16th, 2004 at 2:22 am
I worked with Wayne 26 years ago with “Let’s Go Disco”. Wow! Has he come along way. TG