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#1 2005-03-28 21:43:11

phrakture
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#2 2005-03-28 22:13:40

MillTek
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Registered: 2005-01-30
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Re: mplayer shut down??

There is a link to the homepage at the bottom of that sad display. I guess that the site owners are trying to generate some support in the fight against patent laws for software??

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#3 2005-03-28 22:29:39

smith
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From: Crescent City, CA
Registered: 2005-02-19
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Re: mplayer shut down??

MillTek wrote:

There is a link to the homepage at the bottom of that sad display. I guess that the site owners are trying to generate some support in the fight against patent laws for software??

Well hopefully there tactic will work.  Mplayer is definitely not the only software violating these stupid patents.


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#4 2005-04-04 12:00:43

d3c3it
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From: Manchester, UK
Registered: 2003-09-10
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Re: mplayer shut down??

thats just great, i love how even if you do contact your EU repo (twice) you receive no response


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#5 2005-06-04 06:09:41

dtw
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Re: mplayer shut down??

I like their tactic!  People have been ignoring this issue for far too long!  Maybe this will wake them up?

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#6 2005-06-04 08:43:40

iphitus
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2004-10-09
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Re: mplayer shut down??

amsn.sourceforge.net

have used a similar tactic too

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#7 2005-06-04 08:50:46

CyberTron
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From: Gotland ,Sweden
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Re: mplayer shut down??

i agree, software patents are really bad for the opensource community, let just hope that companies that supports opensource (like SUN, Novell and more) might help in some way


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