So if you want to write TuxPlayerDeluxe then what you do is look at the Helix code and develop a plug in for your player - now you can get buisness to support you. You'll not get a commercial entity to install your homegrown server software on thier servers, but they may use your plug in if you get enough demand, so the success of Helix will help open source media player developers.ġ) Real can offer an all in one solution and hopefully become the prefered solution to MicrosoftĢ) Real can continue to make money from licenseing codecs, rather than having to charge for the player.ģ) Anyone can write support for thier favourite player/format #Helix server medial code I mean to me this looks like a finely balanced mix of commercial sense and Open Source support such that Real can make money. The good thing is if it works and big commercial streamers - for instance the BBC - switch to Helix then it actually will help the adoption of open source formats like Ogg Vorbis because it will so easy to support.Īlternatively if MS wins the server software war 90% of the net will not notice, but the rest of us will lose. ![]() Bare that in mind when worrying if the codecs are Open Source or not - they never will be - but kicking Real may just play into MS's hands. I'm not a great fan of either companies buisness practises - but at least in this case Real is doing something that benefits our community - lets support them on this and maybe in a year or two's time they will do more to support open source. I'd wager that those of us who give two damns about our privacy would much rather use a cross-platform, free solution such as Helix as opposed to Windows Media Player.įirst off, you're mixing your apples and oranges, comparing servers and clients.
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