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Re: [News] List of High-end Multimedia Applications for GNU/Linux

After takin' a swig o' grog, Matt belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

>> Ex-MS security guru to dump Media Center for Linux?
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Veteran Microsoft security expert, Jesper Johansson, says he may dump 
>> | Microsoft's Windows Media Center in favour of Ubuntu-affiliated LinuxMCE 
>> | after struggling with Redmond's DRM (Digital Rights Management) software.  
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Ex-MS-security-guru-dumps-Media-Center-for-Linux/0,130061733,339282399,00.htm
>> http://tinyurl.com/34as9b
>
> Okay, so this expert has switched from the pricey WMC to LinuxMCE, 
> preferring the Linux-only app to the cross-platform options.
>
> But the most important choices here are those of developers who would 
> work on a media-center apps and those who would contribute in other ways 
> (especially monetarily).  Most contributors want their stuff to be used, 
> and they reach fifty times as many users with a cross-platform app as 
> they do with a Linux-only app.

You're missing the big point, Matt -- it's a platform thing in and of
itself.

What good is a cross-platform application running on a crippled platform?

-- 
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