[kde-linux] Is RealPlayer sponsoring KDE?

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Sunday 02 December 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the information

Thierry