Real to Offer Open Source Windows Media for Linux

cpugeniusmv writes to tell us News.com is reporting that RealNetworks plans to release an open source method to allow Linux users to play Windows Media files. Currently Linux users are able to play the two main Windows Media formats (wmv and wma) but only if they install closed-source modules. The ability to launch this initiative comes from a recent licensing deal between RealNetworks and Microsoft and the antitrust settlement against Microsoft.

Satan:

[Winckle]

"Brrr, it's getting chilly!"

That's really...

[Anonymous Coward]

(buffering... buffering)... gr....(buffering...buffering)..eat new (buffering)s.

Re:...err

[WilliamSChips]

It's open source. We'll just change what's inside the gifts from Greeks so it won't be dangerous.

Re:...err

[Red Flayer]

It could be a trojan horse ...(in the Greeks bearing gifts sense...not script kiddie sense)

Just a note, the original Trojan horse was a gift bearing Greeks, not the other way around :)

Re:already there?

[Anonymous Coward]

> and afaik, it can't handle wmv10 drm.

That's a plus point.

Re:already there?

[Anonymous Coward]

I believe it was something about the legality or something. Y'know, copying unlicensed DLLs to another operating system and running them there. It's about copyright law or something.

Re:...err

[Mr. Slippery]

the original Trojan horse was a gift bearing Greeks, not the other way around :)

It was Greeks bearing a gift bearing Greeks. And if a few of those Greeks was carring presents, say birthday presents to give to somebody after the battle or something, then it would be Greeks bearing a gift bearing Greeks bearing gifts.

Re:...err

[Red Flayer]

It was Greeks bearing a gift bearing Greeks. And if a few of those Greeks was carring presents, say birthday presents to give to somebody after the battle or something, then it would be Greeks bearing a gift bearing Greeks bearing gifts.

And if instead of a horse they had built large wooden bears, it would be Greeks gifting bears.

Plus, with the proclivity of Greeks to be naked, you could end up with:
Greeks gifting bears bearing Greeks being bare bearing gifts.

My head hurts now. But "What if we build a large wooden badger..." will be stuck in my mind all day, at least that's a plus.

Missing Features

[yo_tuco]

FTA

"... Duchmann said in an interview here. However, the software [Linux version] won't support digital rights management available with Windows, he added."

How come only the Windows version gets all the good features?

Re:...err (going offtopic)

[cp.tar]

All you need to do, in that case, is write a C interpreter in assembler that can interpret enough of the C language to run the compiler interpretatively as it compiles the compiler. Then you know what the interpreted compiler is doing {because you wrote the interpreter code yourself} and that the compiler it's compiling really is clean {because you checked the compiler source}.

I just imagined Nigel Hawthorne explaining this bit to me.