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Last Chance to Get VLC for iPhone/iPad? Likely to be Pulled from App Store?
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I really think that one developer, Rémi Denis-Courmont, who blindly hates Apple and thinks he has leverage (read it in one of his emails) to change the Apple EULA. He prefers everyone to suffer so he can push his own agenda.
Another reason why you shouldn't distribute things under the GPL. It's just too draconian...almost in the same vein as "closed" source is. There are alternative licences that are just as good, and no where near as restrictive as GPL...like Apache or BSD.
Half the rules for GPL seems more to promote Stallman's rhetoric than anything else. As great as it was in the beginning to promote open source, it's now starting to become a hinderance and holding up progress in some areas...the very thing it was touted as saving in the past.
And no, I'm not looking to get into the merits or politics of this. I'm just a consumer that wants what I want, and this is hindering that. Sure, we can go into the closed nature of Apple and them not allowing blah blah blah. But this is the about Videolan and the "Free" Software Foundation (notice the quotes) not allowing me to do something I want.
Half the rules for GPL seems more to promote Stallman's rhetoric than anything else. As great as it was in the beginning to promote open source, it's now starting to become a hinderance and holding up progress in some areas...the very thing it was touted as saving in the past.
And no, I'm not looking to get into the merits or politics of this. I'm just a consumer that wants what I want, and this is hindering that. Sure, we can go into the closed nature of Apple and them not allowing blah blah blah. But this is the about Videolan and the "Free" Software Foundation (notice the quotes) not allowing me to do something I want.
Are you kidding?
You do know that there are quite a number of apps that play AVI on iOS and Mac?
I think if Apple pulled the app it would be the dumbest thing they could do. Besides, everybody that wanted it already has it so why the hell would it matter if it was on the store or not? People would still be "illegally" using it thereby defeating the purpose of pulling it.
so what if i am?
of course i know that for Mac. but for iOS? what is there?
the logic behind converting everything to h264 compliance is because i have files inside mkv containers as well (a bunch of codecs in there) - converting them to h264 is just easier, and avi plays PATHETICALLY with VLC on my iPad anyway, even SD ones - i can totally see the lag.
i had been using Air Video Server to transcode files on the fly to my iPad from the i7 imac, but its suddenly stopped working on iOS4.2 for iPad
The problem I have with RMS is that his stance is basically communistic (I'm using that word in a descriptive, not a perjorative, sense). He basically rejects the concept of intellectual property rights. it's been about twenty years since I last interacted with him in person, but back then he was adamant about the idea that any code anyone wrote "belonged to the world". As far as I can see, he's always steered FSF in the direction of that philosophy (I have friends who've worked at FSF who can confirm that).
He is also a tireless promoter of the FSF itself - not necessarily a bad thing, for something good that you're passionate about. Sometimes, however, it's not good - can even get petty - anybody remember RMS's insistence that Linux should be called Gnu Linux?
He is also a tireless promoter of the FSF itself - not necessarily a bad thing, for something good that you're passionate about. Sometimes, however, it's not good - can even get petty - anybody remember RMS's insistence that Linux should be called Gnu Linux?
Save your (misdirected) energy for better things... such as reading and thinking (for starters).
Yawn. [speaking of limitations . . . ]
Correct... and even in that regard, i think the FSF may be a bit confused about a few things. For example, this quote (from the link you just provided):
That limit of five devices refers to how many *computers* we can install *music/media* onto. There is no limit (AFAIK) on how many *iPhones/iPods/iPads* we can install *AppStore apps* onto. So that "restriction" they mention there doesn't even apply to VLC itself.Brett Smith said:
Red herring anyone?
Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill macrumors.
How about next time we get a story that's not sensationalist for no good reason.
There are tons of good player apps in the app store people, and all sell for peanuts, o player, buzz player etc.
But you wouldn't know that easily because no one bothers to inform you about it here.
As long as people get worked up and post and counter post it's ok I guess and the requirements for articles have been met...
How about next time we get a story that's not sensationalist for no good reason.
There are tons of good player apps in the app store people, and all sell for peanuts, o player, buzz player etc.
But you wouldn't know that easily because no one bothers to inform you about it here.
As long as people get worked up and post and counter post it's ok I guess and the requirements for articles have been met...
There are tons of good player apps in the app store people, and all sell for peanuts, o player, buzz player etc.
recommend me a free one that will do most things and ill be happy.
Oplayer lite is free. I can't vouch for its quality though. Costs nothing to try
hey thanks! ill give it a squizz
its a decentish amount of money, enough to make me not consider purchasing it anyway, especially when VLC is free
oplayer is pretty darn good as much as I 've used it.
Come one people you are going to be using the players frequently.
Use the lite versions, the free ones (buzz player has one too) and if they suit you go buy the players themselves. Anyone hard up for 2-3 $ shouldn't be here to begin with, they should be out looking for a (better) job. And I am saying this with no intention of offending anyone.
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He's not closed minded only. He's a bona fide troll with the same pattern in almost all his posts and the same modus operandi. And I am sorry you quoted him because I can read him now (I can't if you don't because he's on my ignore list). I am just giving you the heads up here so you can have a more enjoyable forum experience too without getting annoyed by some poster who does this intentionally and routinely and somehow never gets banned.
As mentioned by others earlier, the consumers seem to be of little concern for the FSF and a quite large chunk of the Open Source Community.
Linux is a typical example: while I love the concept from a "political" POV, Linux is just not for everyone.
The only near-disaster that happened to me on a Mac happened after I tried to install Ubuntu on a BootCamp partition
. As a positive, it taught me to backup my desktop.
Look, the initial objection did not come from the FSF. The FSF is not a copyright holder and as such cannot put down a claim.
The initial objection came from someone who contributed code to VLC, an independant developer. Where did you get this was a 3rd party ? This guy is very much 1st party to it all. He wrote code, he retains his copyright and he believes that his code, as licensed under the GPL is being infringed upon by being redistributed in the App store.
Everyone bitching about the FSF here have not read the article and does not understand what is going on.
The FSF have been using outdated information. And also brought videolan into this (not just the single developer).
As mentioned by others earlier, the consumers seem to be of little concern for the FSF and a quite large chunk of the Open Source Community.
Linux is a typical example: while I love the concept from a "political" POV, Linux is just not for everyone.
The only near-disaster that happened to me on a Mac happened after I tried to install Ubuntu on a BootCamp partition
Always keep ubuntu on a flash drive, never on a partition with OS X, this thing can wreak havoc to everything. That's the dark side of the otherwise commendable and open source linux, and especially of ubuntu. I 'd used it for a while, and whilst it's pretty good when things go well, if things go badly they can get seriously out of hand.
Plus to me there really is no need for another unix when you have os x... I can understand one having a linux install when dealing with windows, but I can't see why the should have a worse unix distro than os x - well other than experimentation of course.