[TriLUG] real player to go open source

[Stephen Schaefer]

Yeah, I remember that.  I was actually going to pay
for RealPlay, but only after submitting all my info
did I find that they had no Linux version - which
didn't make sense, since there are more Linux desktops
now than when they published earlier versions of
RealPlayer for Linux.  They were polite and efficient
when I told them not to bill me (which I could do
because of the "14 day trial").

The realplay 8 (free as in beer license) I have now
claims to be covered under a couple patents.  While
the PC World article doesn't discuss it directly, it
appears they'll try to use that to enforce a "no
commercial use" policy. 

    - Stephen

--- "Thomas C. Meggs" <tom at plik.net> wrote:
> No one uses Quicktime because of the nags to
> purchase a full version 
> every time it runs.
> 
> I imagine RealPlayer decided to go opensource after
> no one downloaded 
> RealOne where they force you to fill out a user
> profile just to use the 
> %#^@ thing.
> 
> Regards,
> Tom
> 
> Greg Brown wrote:
> > This is great news!   With the real player going
> cross-platform to OS X and 
> > Linux (and who knows which others) maybe we'll see
> M$ getting some real 
> > competition in the streaming media department (not
> that quicktime does a bad 
> > job - it just seems so limited in number vs. M$
> right now).
> > 
> >
>
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,106457,00.asp
> > 
> > Greg
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