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Real adds GPL to Helix Player, RedHat/Novell Join In

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the internet-radio-to-suck-less dept.

kforeman writes "Today, Linux desktop industry leaders, Red Hat and Novell announced with Real a deep product development and distribution agreement that will enhance the rapidly maturing Linux desktop experience. Specifically, Red Hat and Novell will standardize on the 100% open source Helix Player as the leading multimedia framework for their Linux desktops, and will help qualify and distribute the superset RealPlayer 10 with their upcoming Linux desktop offerings. As part of the announcement, within 30 days, Real will add the GPL as a licensing option the underlying Helix Player. For all of you free software developers who have been waiting for a true GPLed industry standard AV framework, we look forward to working with you."

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  1. Hey! by blackmonday · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, that's really great ne[BUFFERING...]

    1. Re:Hey! by byolinux · · Score: 2, Funny

      My just stupid?

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  2. XIne, Mplayer... by tindur · · Score: 4, Funny

    I for one welcome our new media overlords but do you think this will have any impact on Xine, Mplayer and bros.

  3. Re:what about mplayer and videolan by Kohath · · Score: 2, Funny

    vlc is crash-prone -- at least on Windows.

  4. Re:Give it a run and enjoy the BBC by Cylix · · Score: 3, Funny

    Welcome to the light side my son.

    It's a lot less darker and not so much full of evil over here.

    However, were going to need all of your blood.... it's for posterity so play nice.

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  5. Re:Obligatory picture by Orgazmus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was that supposed to direct me to a site with ladies, or is firefox getting all naughty again? ;)

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  6. OSS Zombies joined by Real. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    long has Microsoft been in the habit of killing competitors, but nowadays they don't die anymore - they just go open source and roam the earth as undead souls, restless, impossible to kill.

    Netscape/Mozilla as the oldest of them, OpenOffice the big evil lich king overlord, Helix a fresh recruit... in time, the army of dead will rise until they have their sweet revenge on the killer... poetic justice...

    hmmm... maybe i _have_ seen too many trashy movies.

  7. Re:GStreamer? by Wiwi+Jumbo · · Score: 2, Funny

    What does this mean for GStreamer, which, as I understand it, has similar goals and is being used by quite some OS software already.

    Well... Helix is a much cooler name then "GStreamer", so I'm guessing Helix will get all the attention from here on out.

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  8. Re:Allow access to subscription services? ASAP by say · · Score: 3, Funny
    Look guys, the head of the Helix project is straight-talking, follows the /. discussion, is supporting Linux, and is a subscriber. What else can you ask for?

    A job?

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  9. Re:Codecs contain spyware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    And queue up the results on the hard drive and don't send them until the next time the network has a lot of activity.

    Then the user'll think it's Outlook or Blaster or other simliar popupler windows software that's connecting to Real.