Democracy Player Receives $100K Grant From Mozilla

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 31, 2007 @07:21AM from the friendly-dinosaur-in-our-midst dept.

puntloos writes "The Open Source Internet TV Platform 'Democracy' has just received a $100,000 Grant from the Mozilla Foundation. Democracy is a combination of ways to view and download media to your desktop in an intuitive way, built on top of the ever-popular VLC video player. Seth's blog has details: 'The Mozilla Board agreed to support them for the following reasons: 1. Their mission to ensure the continued rise of open source & open standards aligns with the Mozilla mission to encourage choice & innovation on the web. 2. They're building something that can have influence on the way users browse web content, rich media, and desktop UI -- and it's based on Mozilla technology. 3. PCF is another example of that leverage we are looking for...they don't have any venture backing, they're running on a very lean budget, and they continue to seek creative resources to make a big difference in the way their users access content on the Web.'"

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AND TACO RECEIVED A COCK IN THE ASS FROM ME! by Subject+Line+Troll · 2007-05-31 07:23 · Score: -1, Troll
Bender Wants to Know by Anonymous Coward · 2007-05-31 07:24 · Score: -1, Troll

Are they going to spend it on a hundred thousand $1 hooker-bots or one $100,000 hooker-bot?
That just goes to show by Anonymous Coward · 2007-05-31 07:26 · Score: -1, Troll

Democracy is not free.