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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.

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  1. Nice one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good job Homos.

    -klerck

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    1. Re:cmdrtaco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  3. Is this good? by Wind_Walker · · Score: 1, Troll
    I'm gonna get modded to hell for this, but who cares about Karma, anyways? :-)

    Exactly what are we (meaning the Linux community) doing when we reverse-engineer these kinds of procedures? I mean, we rant and rave and scream about how terrible proprietary formats are, about how they destroy innovation, about how they are held by Evil Corporations (tm)... And then we reverse-engineer the system calls until we have something that works for us.

    Shouldn't we, as a community, be concentrating our efforts on ways to make the computer world a better and happier place, rather than trying to emulate the big companies that are constantly oppressing the minority Operating Systems (Linux, BSD, etc)? These corporations are doing nothing but destroying our rights, and we emulate them.

    It's time for the free software "movement" to destroy these corporations and their powerful, vice-like grip on information (including Quicktime formats) and instead develop our own methods of showing video on operating systems that are not inferior *cough*Windows*cough*

    1. Re:Is this good? by robsmama · · Score: -1, Troll

      the difference is, windows dosen't steel you code. they are smart enough to write their own

      losers

      MOM

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  5. Quicktime is dying. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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