Re: OfB.biz: Real Networks Announces New Media Player Project

Rob Kaper <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:12:57AM +0100, Daniel Cassidy wrote:
> >   At any rate, I think getting the "real thing," ahem, is still better than
> > getting Windows libraries to work in GNU/Linux.
> 
> I don't see that it makes any difference, as long as it works (which it does, 
> flawlessly). The code is still x86, it's not like you have to do any hardware 
> emulation.

You'd still be using proprietary software, though. Perhaps it would be nice
to move such support to a KDE compile flag --with-proprietary-stuff, so by default
KDE would be free of Real, WMF, Sorensen, MSN, OSCAR, MS-Word, etc etc support.

Rob
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