SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- Gene Kan, a programmer who helped develop the music-swapping Web site Gnutella, died June 29 apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a coroner's spokeswoman said Tuesday. He was 25.

Sue Turner of the San Mateo County medical examiner's office said Kan's death likely would be ruled a suicide, but an investigation was continuing.

Kan was among the first to develop an open-source version of the Gnutella protocol -- a small bit of computer code used by computers for file-sharing.

In June 2000, Kan co-founded Burlingame-based InfraSearch Inc., a peer-to-peer search engine technology company. It attracted high-profile investors such as Netscape alums Marc Andreessen and Mike Homer.

Most recently, Kan worked on advanced projects at Sun Microsystems Inc.

Sun acquired InfraSearch last year.

25? that sucks.

maybe the RIAA has a new policy, "if we can't sue 'em, let's just bump 'em off." there's my MJ-like controversial statement of the day.

Someone should just download his DNA, and "burn" another copy... heh heh

(sorry)

(no I'm not)

(yes I am!)

Gemini in me kicking in...

June7 said:

Tsk Tsk That was sooo bad!

SkletonKee said:

Apparently indeed. I'd love to know more about this...