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MPlayer Developers Interviewed
cruocitae writes "Three of the MPlayer developers just gave an interview, talking about the "mysterious" versioning system of their software and shared a few secrets about the upcoming releases, for example some words about the long-awaited Windows GUI, and of course, DVD menus. Project integrity also was a subject.."
I agree that Vista isn't too exciting and that MS is making a huge mistake not accepting open source in some way. However, I have a couple problems with the "MS is sinking" theory.
.NET is bombing, but where is the evidence? I see no shortage of job openings for VB and C#.
First, the article doesn't mention SQL 2005. I've been using this for a couple months now and just finished load testing on it. Based on my experience, I feel companies will upgrade to it from SQL 2000 at lightning speed.
Second, I keep hearing that
if there is another successful open source project like firefox that spreads over to the win platform and hits it big this could mean more respect for opensource projects and possably more people willing to switch over. i know firefox was a big part of what let me feel comfertable switching over to linux. just imagain if some one has a windows system with firefixed for there internet browsing.. mplayer for there meltimedia and open ofice for there fancy text editor.... at that point it would not take much to move then over to a new OS since there forminlar with most of the software they use. ps: i noticed in reviewing what i wrote that i acidently typed 'firefixed' instead of firefox but i liked how it sounded so i kept it... gues my subconsus is working overtime