[MPlayer-dev-eng] rotfl

[gabor]

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 11:41, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i've just found this on slashdot in a comment:
> 
>  Because MPlayer is in Hungary (a lawless, anarchistic nation), MPlayer does
> what MPlayer wants to do. Including packaging copyrighted quicktime
> software. Mplayer does not take shit from anyone. For example, MPlayer uses
> the trademark "Mplayer" (originally an internet gaming company from America)
> just to piss of American lawyers. Also, MPlayer likes to violate the DMCA by
> being able to play video
> streams never meant to be playable (like Sorenson and MPEG). This also violates
> international treaties which say you must pay royalties to the patent office to
> use its "codecs" (stands for coder-decoder, for all you non-multimedia
> nerds). Fortuantely, Hungary is land-locked and mountainous, making it not
> easily succeptible to missiles targeted at its web servers.
> 

btw.... hmmm.. this would be hard.... 
hmm... should i risk a permban from this mailinglist?...:))

is the name 'MPlayer' the best it can have?

personally i think that it's too close to mplayer2.exe... i'm not
talking about copyright/trademark nonsense... just that  this superb
player should have his own, distinctive name

gabor

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