[Fsfe-ie] Eben Moglen in Harvard
Ciaran O'Riordan
ciaran at member.fsf.org
Sat Feb 28 17:42:58 CET 2004
> > You've been tricked.
> >
> Nah, I haven't. [...] I accept source code that's open to /me/
> as a form of open source software.
Ahh, but the source code is not open to you.
RealNetworks have been careful to create confusion about this. While
they have made *some* of the interface source code viewable (but none
free), the codec module that is needed to actually play the RealPlayer
audio/video is completely proprietary/closed/hidden/etc.
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Ciarán O'Riordan
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