Fluendo To Sell Proprietary Codecs For Linux

Several readers wrote in to tell us that the open source media software development company Fluendo has announced plans to sell native Linux implementations of proprietary video codecs such as Windows Media, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. (Press release here.) From the article: "Currently, many Linux video applications facilitate Windows Media video playback using Windows DLL files and Wine, which provides suboptimal performance, particularly with streaming video. Fluendo's codecs could potentially provide better integration for streaming Windows Media playback in Linux web browsers as well as through GStreamer-based desktop applications like Totem."

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[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Look at all the flak NVidia's binary-only drivers take from the GNU-types, and those are FREE.

And why did they take all that flak? Perhaps it was because of the security implications of running a binary kernel module? Not an unrealistic fear either:

The NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as root. This bug can be exploited both locally or remotely

PS. Love the way you capitalized FREE! That'll get the "GNU-types" worked up. Seriously - nice trolling.