You're making a gamble without considering the consequences of losing. This
is dangerous in any situation. If your gamble fails, not only will some
people continue to use this old proprietary program, but this old proprietary
program may even get more attention from the press.
I'm going to repeat: signing this petition does *not* say that you want
Winamp to be free. It says that you want Winamp to keep support as a
proprietary program, and that in the worst case you are willing to accept the
*suboptimal* "solution" of making the code "open source".
This. Petition. Does. Not. Ask. For. Freedom.
It asks for Winamp to stay alive, and it prioritizes keeping Winamp
proprietary.
That is why signing this petition is a bad... no, a *terrible* idea.