please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . january 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message cockos inc. type public industry technology founded 2004 founder justin frankel headquarters san francisco california area served digital audio production key people justin frankel christophe thibault john schwartz jean fran ois b dague products reaper ninjam jesusonic website cockos cockos inc is an american digital audio technology company most notable for their digital audio workstation software reaper . the company s stated goal is to develop software sustainably while preventing profit rationale from forcing engineering compromises . by doing so we can keep our product visions intact giving maximum benefit to our users . 1 contents 1 history 2 staff 3 references 4 external links history edit cockos was founded in 2004 by justin frankel after his departure from nullsoft . the company name stems from mis hearing a quote from the movie office space . 2 while the company also develops small software tools often released under an open source license 3 its main focus is on music software . they released their first music software product a programmable effects processing software called jesusonic on december 21 2004 . 4 following up in 2005 they released the online music jam software ninjam under the gpl 5 with the release of their flagship product reaper following later that year . staff edit cockos currently has two programmers . 6 justin frankel the company founder probably best known for his work on the winamp media player application and john schwartz who joined cockos in 2008 and is the author of many audio plug ins notably a virtual analogue synthesizer called olga . christophe thibault an old colleague of frankel s from his nullsoft days was a cockos employee between 2005 2014 . thibault is a french programmer and was the founder of the kaillera and k meleon projects . in april 2014 he moved to blizzard entertainment . references edit frankel justin january 2010 . cockos incorporated . retrieved 2010 01 08 . justin frankel rocks on . wired . october 2 2006 . 1 2 3 4 external links edit retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cockos & oldid 743698194 categories companies based in san franciscohidden categories articles needing additional references from january 2010all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view