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Re: [bongo-devel] Re: bongo.el --- flexible and usable media player
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: [bongo-devel] Re: bongo.el --- flexible and usable media player |
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Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:34:09 -0500 |
> On the other hand, I believe --- and please correct me if I
> am wrong --- that VLC in fact does not encourage use of
> non-free software. Why don't they brag about this more?
>
> I do not know, but I speculate that they are supporters of the open
> source philosophy rather than the free software philosophy. The idea
> of open source is that you should aim only for making software
> powerful and reliable. That world view does not suggest that freedom
> is worth fighting for.
Why, then, do they not recommend the non-free codecs that
would make VLC more powerful?
I don't know what they think -- I can only try to guess from
what they do and say.
- [bongo-devel] Re: bongo.el --- flexible and usable media player, Daniel Brockman, 2007/01/02
- [bongo-devel] Re: bongo.el --- flexible and usable media player, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/02
- [bongo-devel] Re: bongo.el --- flexible and usable media player, Daniel Jensen, 2007/01/02
- [bongo-devel] Re: bongo.el --- flexible and usable media player, Daniel Jensen, 2007/01/03
- Re: [bongo-devel] Re: bongo.el --- flexible and usable media player, Daniel Brockman, 2007/01/04
- [bongo-devel] Re: bongo.el --- flexible and usable media player, Daniel Jensen, 2007/01/04
- Re: [bongo-devel] Re: bongo.el --- flexible and usable media player, Daniel Brockman, 2007/01/04
- [bongo-devel] Re: bongo.el --- flexible and usable media player, Daniel Jensen, 2007/01/04
- Re: [bongo-devel] Re: bongo.el --- flexible and usable media player, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/04
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- Re: [bongo-devel] Re: bongo.el --- flexible and usable media player, Daniel Brockman, 2007/01/15