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Real Announce Helix Grant Program, Player
Rob Lanphier writes "RealNetworks made two announcements at LinuxWorld this week: we will be giving out up to $75,000 by the end of the year for development of open source projects based on the Helix multimedia platform. Also, we just formally launched the Helix Player project, which is a project to build a GTK+ based user interface for Linux, Solaris, and other UNIXy operating systems. Press releases for the grant program here and player project here"
Buy hey, it's not MS therefore it's great right? Everyone here'll eat it up. Whitness the total Apple conversion from being the evil mini-empire to Slashdot's best friend! (ven though they haven't actually released anything of any real interest and are being every bit as evil to their users and competitors as always.
That's just the way it is around here...
Ok so the whole thing's a project to create some sort of retarded new media player type thing that's cross-platform? Well great... If it wasn't launched by Real, the people who brought us the SINGLE MOST UTTERLY AWFUL video format.
And as has been noted above, with the faxing, and the NDAs and this and that... exactly what kind of Open Source is this?
In case of ./
Beware of the elusive...
The unofficial
for Linux, Solaris, and other UNIXy operating systems. Read: Anything SCO wants you to pay licensing for. That's why Real is doing this, you see, to get back at SCO.
when SCO sues everyone who has released code that can run on Linux.
QuickTime can be downloaded for free.
I'm sorry, they don't release the source code because unfortunately, THEY ARENT COMMUNIST FUCKING GNU/HIPPIES. GO HUG A TREE YOU FUCKING HIPPIE!
Until SCO sues Real... That's my prediction