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

[Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> ____/ Matt on Friday 17 April 2009 14:22 : \____
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> > I would say hands-down that the cross-platform projects would be
> > dominant on Linux, but that might not come true if Windows users are
> > already fairly well-served by some free-beer equivalent.  I notice that
> > Windows Media Center retails for over $100 at newegg.
> And who says it's any better?
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> Is Encarta better than Wikipedia?
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> Ex-MS security guru to dump Media Center for Linux?
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> | 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.  
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> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Ex-MS-security-guru-dumps-Media-Center-for-Linux/0,130061733,339282399,00.htm
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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.