Microsoft Media player now runs on Linux

[Fraser Campbell]

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 09:20, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:29:56AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > Turbo Linux has created a media player for Linux that uses Microsoft
> > media player code.  While it doesn't sound like a native port of media
> > player (misleading title) it is interesting that Microsoft would allow
> > any of their code to be used on Linux:
> >
> >   http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15547
>
> Is that any more impresive than just using mplayer which can run most
> win32 codecs already?  I use it for avi's with divx, xvid, quicktimes,
> realmedia, etc.

Not at all, what I find interesting is the use of officially licensed 
Microsoft code on the Linux platform with Microsoft's apparent blessing ... I 
can't think of other cases where that has been done.

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