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RealNetworks & Helix Community to Build OpenSource Media Player

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2003-08-06 15:59. Gnome Multimedia
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Today at Linuxworld RealNetworks announced the launch of the Helix(TM) Player project.

The open-source Helix Player, with the addition of the RealAudio(R) and
RealVideo(R) binaries, will enable Linux, Unix and Solaris users for the first
time to enjoy a similar level of media playback and SMIL 2.0 support that
millions of consumers do today using the free RealOne(TM) Player on Windows
and Mac.

Helix Player will feature a GNOME/GTK interface along with a Mozilla browser plugin. THe player will also support Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and more.

Re: www.faifzilla.org

Submitted by coriordan on Fri, 2003-08-08 06:11.

The GPL affects code. It's influences are irrelevant.

RMS tells people to use BSD licensed software. It just can't be mixed with GPL code.

My main point which you didn't comment on is that I see copyleft's incompatabilities as an unfortunate necessity. Without copyleft, companies would not be contributing back to the community like they are now.

(I'll keep an eye on this forum but I probably won't post again. The gnomedesktop cheerleaders are moderating with an agenda I can do without. (many of my comments were angry and deserved to be modded down but at least one was purely informational and was modded down as Troll).)

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