RealNetworks Releases Helix Source

Posted by michael on Tuesday October 29, 2002 @06:59AM from the trying-to-avoid-media-player-steamroller dept.

teeheehee writes "According to this DigitalMass article, RealNetworks yesterday released source code for their audio and video players, with server-side and encoding software coming maybe in December. The code isn't complete, it's missing things like burning-to-cd routines; and they're getting flak from Microsoft calling it a ploy. Regardless, anytime a big company releases their source only good can come of it (for the public.)" Our story a few days ago had more information on the licensing, and gathered a couple of interesting posts from one user.

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REPEAT REPEAT by Nintendork · 2002-10-29 08:39 · Score: 1, Redundant

Come on guys, two repeats of recent articles in the same day. I saw the article on the AP Wire and did a search on /. for Helix to discover that it was posted two days ago. The other repeat from today is that yellow superworm article. Here's the previous posting.