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Quicktime In Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the glory-glory-hallejuah dept.

brianmed writes "Yes, it works. Codeweavers has just announced their crossover plug-in. It enables users to access popular Windows files and plug-ins in Linux. Right now it is geared towards Quicktime, Shockwave, and Word viewers. Quicktime trailers play just fine. I also have pine setup to launch the the MS Word viewer on command. It is a happy day." Alright, time to start testing. I've also been talking with Jeremy White of Codeweavers: he's got a request for help, as well as an interesting piece on business models -- the Crossover is not entirely GPL. See the above for more information.

18 of 354 comments (clear)

  1. Nice first try! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't be so hard on yourself... it was a nice first effort! Keep up the good work.

  2. finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    news for nerds... stuff that matters... now I can go take a dump.

  3. Re:Somebody should tell these guys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but not shockwave.

    i bet apple is going to sue thier ass off for profiting off thier proprietary codec. sorensen license absolutely forbids running any sorensen quicktime media on any platform other than mac and windows.

    you get the cell next to dmitry.

  4. Re:Somebody should tell these guys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    sorensen license

    This kind of a draconian license just cries to be violated.

    In the open source world where intellectual property is not real property no product such as this can survive.

  5. Oh yeah?!! QT found dead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    QT, the GUI framework from Trolltech, was found dead at the age of 3 under a pile of used diapers at the city dump today. Eric S Raymond, noted homosexual communist rabble-rouser groused, "well of course it's dead, it's not GNU ". You may have never used QT, since it doesn't run on Windows, but still it failed to impact any of us at all. Truly an icon of American failure.

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  12. Re:Waffle much? by Trollificus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What do you expect? These are the same people who bitch and whine about how MS copies rather than innovates, and then makes their own OS more "windows-like" with each upgrade and release.

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  13. Re:Is this good? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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