Matt,
On 31.03.2007 07:22, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just having a look around; along with hardware support, I thought it
> would be best to help provide a 'link database' to link up customer
> needs to solutions that exist for Solaris.
>
> Case in point, https://shop.fluendo.com/ who sell currently support for
> WMA/WMV/Mp3 playback for Solaris x86/SPARC - and from what I understand,
> the compresssion side of the equation will be arriving soon.
>
> Not only will this help first time users in regars to helping them
> resolve support issues relating to multimedia, it'll also provide a good
> platform in which Solaris solution provides can directly contact
> customers and vice versa, without needing to navigate the beaucracy that
> is Sun - if this provides free publicitly, hopefully it'll entice more
> vendors to come on board and provide Solaris editions of their software.
>
> What does everyone else thing?
Looks to me like a commercial license, this is not the idea of Open Source
Software (OSS)!
For the "end customer Solaris" choosing a proprietary add on is a political
issue Sun has to decide.
You certainly will set up the free software community which would be happy
having something they can use for their free version of OpenSolaris and
which is free of rights like real OSS tools like xine, mplayer/mencoder,
lame, ffmpeg, vlc, available and running under Solaris, Linux, BSD, OSX
and partly even Windows.
Cheers,
Dirk
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