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"

Comments

Open Source DRM:

[Ieshan]

options.c /*Please comment out this option if you want to disable DRM. Doing so *may* make you liable for copyright infringement!*/
bool DRM_Enabled = True; /*Please comment out this option if you want to disable the automatic sending of personal information (shopping habits, social security number, recently visited pr0n sites) to RealNetworks. Doing so *may* disable use of this player!*/
bool player_works = True

etc.. etc..

Ooooh...

[sbszine]

Can I port the bit of Realplayer that takes over your browser and can only be removed with holy water and a complete reinstall?

I've got something important to say about Real.

[Chess_the_cat]

Real >>>buffering 34%>>> Player is some >>>buffering 46%>>> of the >>>buffering 54%>>> finest >>>buffering 60%>>> software I've ever >>>buffering 70%>>> come across.