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Re: [opensuse-factory] RealPlayer dropped from openSUSE, why?
- From: Wolfgang Woehl <tito@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:56:30 +0100
- Message-id: <200811031756.31050.tito@xxxxxxxxxx>
Alberto Passalacqua:
Two-part quanswer:
a) Novell/opensuse apparently dropped it because Real turned out to be
the greedy optimists they set out to be from day 1 of their operation.
Which effectively puts them *out* of business. RIP.
b) Imagine Microsoft releasing a linux version of Windows Media
Player. Remember, Real is already bridging their codecs in. Should
linux distributions embrace that?
Wolfgang
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Could you elaborate on why it is better to drop it, if it's not
something that sounds "let's go foss at all costs"?
Frankly I don't see a real advantage in that, and I see a
disadvantage for some users.
Two-part quanswer:
a) Novell/opensuse apparently dropped it because Real turned out to be
the greedy optimists they set out to be from day 1 of their operation.
Which effectively puts them *out* of business. RIP.
b) Imagine Microsoft releasing a linux version of Windows Media
Player. Remember, Real is already bridging their codecs in. Should
linux distributions embrace that?
Wolfgang
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