VLC For Windows 8 Reaches $65,000 Funding Goal On Kickstarter

An anonymous reader writes "A Metro version of VLC, the popular free and open-source media player, is coming to Windows 8. On Sunday, the VideoLAN organization reached its funding goal on Kickstarter for its Windows 8-specific app. There are also plans to port it afterwards to Windows Phone 8. The project has now been funded by over 2,500 backers, who have pledged more than the £40,000 ($65,000) goal."

Comments

Re:Let Windows 8 Die

[Anonymous Coward]

Then use Ubuntu and stop crying like a little bitch.

Re:New Kickstarter Idea

[Sir_Sri]

For real.

This was a stupid idea. Windows 8 is a trainwreck. No serious application should be aiming for microsoft app store approval. Turning windows into a walled garden is bad for windows and bad for the PC industry as a whole. If all you have is an app store (google play or iOS app store) app, fine whatever, porting it to windows walled garden isn't making it any worse. But taking a program from the open platform desktop into the walled garden of 'metro' is a monumentally bad idea.

Now the thing is, windows 8 isn't just bad because the store is a bad idea. It's bad because it glues two completely different interfaces together in a confusing manner. And how they fix that, with windows 9, may mean a completely rewrite of 'apps' or programs, or both. And until we know what that is going to require we shouldn't be throwing money at windows 8 projects.

Those are two very separate problems, one philosophical and industry related, and the other a very open ended technical question.

Re:VLC

[hairyfeet]

Actually I'd say its more like 100% that it will NOT get put on WinRT and WinPhone and it will NOT be because of MSFT, it will be because of a douchebag developer just like we saw when they tried to port VLC to the appstore and iPhone.

This is why I predict that GPL will be dead in 5 years for all places not connected to server space, the devs will have no choice but to either go with another license or get every contributor to sign a wavier saying the head dev has sole ownership of the code. Since the hardcore GPL zealots will never agree to that, and because none of the MSFT or Apple appstores will EVER be GPL V3 compatible, the devs will have no choice but to move away from GPL to something like BSD or MPL or Apache licenses.

Again look up what happened when they tried to port VLC to the Apple appstore, i'm sure the same douchebag that threw a fit then will again wait until right before its gonna launch and throw another bitchfit and make all their work for naught. This is a problem that has been plaguing FOSS for awhile I predict is gonna finally come to a head, on one side you have the pragmatists that want as many people as possible to use FOSS and then you have what I call the "FOSSies" that wouldn't care if only a single person used GPL as long as it was "ideologically pure".

At the end of the day NO GPL apps that aren't completely owned by the dev team will make it into the appstores, since they have no more right to the code than any of us here do. The appstores don't allow you to hand it out to others for free, don't allow you to load the code without jailbreaking, therefor its gonna run afoul of the GPL redistribution clause, simple as that.