[oclug] Mandrake files for bankruptcy protection.

[Shad Young]

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 00:30, Ben Reser wrote:
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> d) As I pointed out later, though I didn't realize it for a long time,
> they ship a demo version of Codeweaver's Crossover Plugin on their
> commercial CDs.  Crossover, has similar functionality to install 
> these fonts built into it, which also downloads and installs the fonts.
> So if there is a legal reason for not shipping my package, then there
> is a legal reason to not ship Crossover.  They're still selling
> Crossover from their store to this day.  Plus, Crossover allows you
> to install Windows Media Player, which is flat out blatant contributory
> copyright infringement.
> 
> Crossover on their Store:
> http://www.mandrakestore.com/mdkinc/index.php?PAGE=tab_2/menu_0.php&id_art=192&LANG_=en#GOTO_192
> Details on Crossover itself:
> http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/

This is a very odd piece of software. I fail to understand any benefit
it may provide, except for a few people who need the one or two plug-ins
not yet supported by Linux. Missing from the base install is the
Quicktime Plug-in... (sure its supported, but not part of their
installer and is fiddly to get working properly (never mind the abysmal
frame rate)

Who needs WMP 6.4? That is 3 years out of date and does not support
modern codecs. Who needs Flash six? It is available for Linux. Same for
RP8.0. Yeah Chime is nice for school, but.  more importantly why would I
pay the equivalent of $100+cdn a year for the privilege? (35.00 us per
6mos for the CD, or double that for their pointless MS office viewers
which are also available for free elsewhere)

Shad

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