[kde-linux] Is RealPlayer sponsoring KDE?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday 02 December 2007, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> For whatever reason, the two latest distributions I've been installing
> (SuSE 10.3 and SimplyMepis 7.0 RC1) both have RealPlayer set as default for
> most of their audio stuff !?!
>
>  Wikipedia says RealPlayer for Linux is "based on the open-source Helix
> Player", is it really open source?

As far as I know it is, however it can be used in combination with proprietary 
pluging, such as patent encumbered codecs.

> Is this "realplayer for everything" a KDE policy or a choice of the
> distributions?

Choice of the distribution.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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