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Re: Media player software for linux?



> It doesn't have to be piracy, it can be legal fair use. If you
> legally own a copy of a Windows player, whether or not you have
> Windows itself, nobody is stopping you from using its DLLs in any
> way you like.
So, for using Free-Software (http://www.fsf.org) you need to buy a legal copy 
of <any> windows. yes. OK. I understand. 

There is a problem with linux today: many people think that if they reverse 
engineering some software and re-implement them and distribute the source 
code, everything is fine. Well it is not. On this list I heard about some 
propel which tried to make a GUI for a commercial program (and that KDE gui 
will call the console program), but they were treated with a law suit. 
The WINE project? According to MS EULA's you cannot run the win32 app's on 
non-microsoft OS, so all MS programs testing on WINE are ILLEGAL. And further 
on: the newest developer2000 EULA does not provide you the right to do 
OpenSource program with it. Again MS knows what will happen if free software 
will enter the win32 market: they will loose that is whey there are afraid.
Anyway :
> Windows itself, nobody is stopping you from using its DLLs in any
> way you like.
I think MS is stopping you. read the EULA.

 - diego


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