Ok, excuse me for starting to go off-topic, it’s just that this political subject is currently in vogue, and you can actually breathe it in the air. Yet we demonize Netscape while we praise Firefox, we demonize Sun and praise OOo. Sun paid millions of dollars to buy the StarOffice product, which was very advanced by then. Many OSS zealots like to quickly forget or dismiss that most of the prominent and successfull OSS projects that are having traction on Windows (and off) started as proprietary projects, with heavy investments already been made.įor example, OpenOffice did not start as an Open Source Project. This project is interesting in the fact that it is one of the few and first that is written 1) under OSS politics, 2) developed for Windows first, and 3) has *not* been started from the works of an existing commercial venture. (yeah, MP3tunes is easy to remember, just like the Lindows name was □ Sans the music stores, of course, but then again, it could grow to work with Linspire’s MP3tunes, or with that other store that uses OGG, whose name escapes me now. Then, it will be pretty much up to par with WMP, iTunes and MusicMatch. The main features missing for normal-to-advanced users are CD burning, and visualizations. Truly, it is not exactly eye-candy, but it is not a pain to the eyes either. This software seems to have almost all of the power and flexibility of Windows Media Player, while not being as resource intensive.
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