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The Committee for Economic Development on digital copyright

The Committee for Economic Development on digital copyright

Posted Mar 4, 2004 12:11 UTC (Thu) by haraldt (guest, #961)
In reply to: The Committee for Economic Development on digital copyright by csamuel
Parent article: The Committee for Economic Development on digital copyright

Jon Johansen, who did this work, knew how to mock up a GUI in MSwindows, but not how to it in GNU/Linux. He was young, and not that experienced a programmer.
It was meant as a proof of concept, another small step in the creation of a free DVD utility set, not as much of a solution in itself.

Also of importance: Modern free DVD players don't use much (if any) of the code in this program. It's outdated, probably as it was meant to be.


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