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Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398

plasmacutter writes "The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the Mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."
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Where's the "IronPerl" Project? 390

pondlife writes "A friend asked me today about using some Microsoft server components from Perl. Over the years he's built up a large collection of Perl/COM code using Win32::OLE and he had planned on doing the same thing here. The big problem is that as with many current MS APIs, they're available for .NET only because COM is effectively deprecated at this point. I did some Googling, expecting to find quickly the Perl equivalent of IronPython or IronRuby. But to my surprise I found almost nothing. ActiveState has PerlNET, but there's almost no information about it, and the mailing list 'activity' suggests it's dead or dying anyway. So, what are Perl/Windows shops doing now that more and more Microsoft components are .NET? Are people moving to other languages for Windows administration? Are they writing wrappers using COM interop? Or have I completely missed something out there that solves this problem?"

Comment Re:Bill's argument (Score 1) 976

Only because there aren't a group of idealogues running around providing free plumbing, electrical, engineering, architectural or carpentry work. Those trades would be screwed if there were.

You're also missing another point, which is certification. Most of those trades require you to be certified before you can practice them for money. Another example would be the law. The law is free... Anyone can learn about the law. If you want to practice law, you need to pass the bar and be licensed. Same with medicine.

Open source & Free software are great things, but to pretend they are something they aren't is disingenuous.

Comment Re:IIyama (Score 1) 653

I just bought the HM903T (19", 2x VGA in, USB Hub, Speaker) and IMHO it is one of the best CRTs ever made. OK, it is quite expensive, but for me a sharp monitor is more important than a CPU beeing 100HMz faster Micha !

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