From: Miguel F. <mi...@ce...> - 2001-11-21 02:02:26
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Hi Guenter, I think i got your points and i'm mostly for it. Just comenting a few mistakes: Guenter Bartsch wrote: > making some money of free software is certainly nothing strange, in fact > it really complies even with RMS - as long as the software stays free, as > I said, I have no intentions to change that. So, no need to worry here. Yes, of course! I would not mind if anybody start selling xine at circuit city, fry's eletronics... In fact i would love to see that! :) > main web page - this shouldn't use up too much space there. On that page > we could list sponsors / people who have donated money or things - > basically who has given what to whom. We could also have a developers > wishlist there: That would be great! > definitely. But I think we should mention that on the web site as well, I > think a lot of companies just don't know how to "handle" a project like > xine, so just a few sentences "post to xine-devel about your project..." > could help here. Agreed. >>I have no plans to get a job/sponsor with xine in the near future. Next >>year i will be doing master degree and working at the university. >> > > hey, pretty much what I intend to do in my "real life" as well :-) > > but anyway I wouldn't mind getting some extra $$ or some nice donations > from the xine project - but every developer is of course free not to join > the sponsoring/donations page. I wouldn't mind receiving hardware/dvd donations and money either! :) >>I think we have an excelent opportunity to make _THE_ open >>source multimedia player. >> > > heyhey, we do free software here, not just open source. Sorry, i really mean free software. >>There's not a single commercial multimedia/dvd >>player for linux to compete yet. If we make a good quality 1.0 release >>and them have it included on major distros, kde etc we are done! :) >> > > sure - but again, free software and being commercial is no contradiction. > The real enemy is proprietary software. Again i've choosen the wrong words... just because most comercial software is proprietary. I tried to say that most proprietary software can get ready faster than free software because they have full time workers on it. I believe free software will produce better (and more important: free in the RMS sense) alternatives in the long run. But actually we have a time window of no proprietary competition and a really good software already. Maybe next year we can start competing with Media Player! :) Regards, Miguel Freitas |