On Fri, 03 Apr 1998 00:06:39 -0500 (EST), Dave Wreski wrote:
>> You did have a registered version, in a sense. rvplayer is free as was
>> realaudio for the Linux program. The commercial "RealPlayer Plus" is not
>> included in Linux, because that product only exists for the Windows and
>> Mac(?) platforms.
>
>Hmm.. That's pretty misleading then. I can't believe more people haven't
>complained. Any where is the updated one on their web page!? Sheesh.. I
>probably would have bought RH 5 anyway, but they shouldn't have even bothered
>to
>mention they included the realplayer, as its free anyway..
Well, that "free" license is not free in the GPL sense. Netscape has
always been "free" yet they used to want to charge us a per copy fee to
distribute it. That is one of the reason why Netscape was never
distributed until very recently. Real Networks approached us last year
about including their products in our dist. That is why we distribute
both the client and the server. They are commercial products, put into
RPM format. For that, we are allowed to "advertise" their presence on
our boxed set.
I hope that clears any misconceptions up.
Mike
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