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Re: [LUG] PowerDVD - still non-free and proprietary



On Sunday 10 October 2004 16:48, Dave Trudgian wrote:

In my eyes they are giving something back. Familiar, proprietary
programs let people have an easy transition to a new O/S. I despise
xine, ogle, mplayer etc as they lack features, and have always been
flaky for me. I would certainly consider purchasing a proprietary DVD
player package if available since I'd like something that just worked
for that. In other fields I am ready to fiddle, just not all the time.

Bottom line for me is that proprietary software can boost the Linux user
base, and make linux an acceptable platform for many. Once onto Linux
people are likely to experiment with the multitude of OSS available
which is a good thing.


I for one have no problem with 'closed source proprietry software' on linux. I 
do have problems with the idea that the core software (kernel etc) can/should 
have proprietry extensions allowed.
At the end of the day (imho) GNU Linux is all about choice, if you choose to 
install proprietry software that's upto you. It's my opinion that you should 
expect support for that software for the manuf' and not the LUGs though, and 
you'll end up in the same hole as windose users' - with software that doesn't 
do what you need and no recourse to fix it.

Just by 2p worth.

Jon

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