The original development team was formed by Erik de Jonge, Robin Jans, Martijn Venrooy, Perica Zivkovic from the company Active8 based in the Netherlands, Andrew Grumet, Garth Kidd and Mark Posth joined the team soon after the first release. The development team credited the program concept to
Adam Curry who founded
ipodder.org, wrote a little Applescript as a proof of concept and provided the first podcast shows (then referred to as 'audio enclosures') but primarily to
Dave Winer who was the inspiration for Adam Curry. The first version also included a screenscraper for normal HTML files. Initially, it was not clear that podcasting would be completely tied to RSS. Although that was eventually the method chosen, during the early development phase a diverse range of people were working on alternatives, including a version based on
Freenet. The program is written in Python and, through use of a cross-platform UI library, runs on
Mac OS X and Microsoft
Windows 2000 or
Windows XP. A
Linux variant has not been developed. In 2006 the team effectively stopped further development of the program, the developers started working in other fields, some Podcasting related. Adam Curry and Andrew Grumet started working on a commercial show network (podshow) where all the shows are sponsored and the distinction between show and commercial is faded to the background. Others went on to other ventures. ==Legacy==