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

Daniel Cassidy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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