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Fluendo announces Windows Media and MPEG codec support for Linux

Fluendo announces Windows Media and MPEG codec support for Linux

Posted Jan 16, 2007 17:39 UTC (Tue) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: Fluendo announces Windows Media and MPEG codec support for Linux by danieldk
Parent article: Fluendo announces Windows Media and MPEG codec support for Linux

The thing that really concerns me about this is that this is directly funding the very companies who are fighting the pro-software-patent fight. By licensing software patents from them. So you've got to remember that every time one of these is purchased it is (financially at least) slightly reversing the efforts of those of us who have spent the time to turn up in Brussels after a bad nights sleep and sit in meetings and talk to MEPs all day.

Apart from that, Fluendo do some great things in Free software - pitivi, cortado, flumotion, much of the gstreamer maintenance, so this really conflicts me.


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