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Windows Media Player 9

Posted by michael on from the more-restrictions,-fewer-features dept.

captainclever writes "The Register has an interesting article about the posibilities for WMP Clients for Linux. Would anyone want to use MS WMP in Linux?" See also a news.com story.

6 of 445 comments (clear)

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

    Yeah, don't you just love it that you have to resort to using an illegal hack to play standard media on your Lunix box...

  2. Re:WMP/MP3/OGG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I am troubled by the OGG induced hearing damage too. I had just packed all my 300+ CDs into OGG when I read the news about the potential damage it could cause to my hearing.

    I wonder if Windows Media has similar problems?

  3. A travesty. by Slums · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hope Windows Media Player gets AIDS.

    --


    I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots? Or only five?
  4. Re:NO M$ $OFTWARE FOR FREEBSD/LINUX! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Silly boy.

    When you run MPlayer you ARE running Microsoft software on your precious FreeBSD/Linux box. All the codecs are illegally ripped off from the original Microsoft and Apple media players.

    So, in the end, you are nothing but a hypocrite cheapskate with illegal software. A typical open source zealot, that is.

  5. While we're at it... by zerofoo · · Score: 1, Troll

    While we are giving Microsoft a foothold in the Linux, why don't we give Saddam a nuke?

    -ted

  6. Re:It's the GUI. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    The Unix usability problem is solved

    *spits out coffee*, bursts out laughing.

    You, sir, are an idiot.