Re: OfB.biz: Real Networks Announces New Media Player Project
Daniel Cassidy <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.cafe |
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On Thursday 07 August 2003 3:59 pm, Rob Kaper wrote: > 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. Argh! But Real's player will also use proprietary software for these codecs!! -- Dan. Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.