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Commercial DVD Software Comes to Linux
timekillerj writes "Turbolinux launched a new version of it's Linux distribution today. The key feature is the first commercial DVD player, provided by Cyberlink. PowerDVD for Linux supports menu navigation, Dolby Digital sound, subtitles, and more."
Ehh? PowerDVD is a *Proprietary* product. Commercial only means they make theyre living on it. MySQL for instance is a commercial free software / opensource product. I'm never going to use PowerDVD, so i guess that makes me a criminal. Well BLOW ME!
These companies can whine all they want to me about libdvdcss and libdvdread not being legit, but I get them from reputable sources, linked many times from Linux distributor's official sites.
Had PowerDVD been available a couple of years ago, I may have taken notice, but now it's too little, too late.
Neither one. They're aging liberal hippie douches that still pine for the days of ITS and spooge in their pants anytime someone talks about LISP. What you're reading is the exhaust fumes from the dumbasses that treat software like a fucking religion.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
And where are you today? Complaining to people that don't have it as good as you in Slashdot. And what did they teach you in college? They taught you to think you're smart. A truly smart person would use Xine or Mplayer and keep the $69 for something worthwhile. Finally, if someone wants to write software to do something that already exists for free and wants to get paid for it they can go hungry.
So who should I give myself up to, Jack Valenti? And if you come to my house aristotle-dude, I'll teach ya what they didn't in college.
If you are not paying for codecs, then you are stealing.
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