Make it work in Fedora (Red Hat) through RPMFusion is the easiest way for MC to make back its money invested in the Linux project. Further, this constitutes less work and many of us will undoubtedly donate. Selling it on Linux, as seen by Beyond Compare, can be costly with very low returns. The donation aspect will speak volumes for the number one true media center mogul JRiver. If you sell you are going to Ubuntu it. The Ubuntu crowd, without prejudice, for the most part, do not utilize the OS as a server. Fedora, for the most part, as mine does for example, houses an endless amount of server functions that RPM Fusion can embellish. It is, as seen with TeamViewer, to utilize Wine, very profitable when approached by openG software. Donations and funding, IBM for example, comes from everywhere. The code is nearly complete to begin with. I often reach success with Fedora 16 and cannot wait to try it on Fedora 17....just not on my server (costly move...ha ha). The problem with Wine, as seen with Google Picassa and Fedora, is that most Windows users have no clue how to utilize commands to implement the mounting of a network topology and thence watch in haste while the MC sits and freezes up the entire OS....as seen in XMBC and MediaTomb.
Personally, selling on Linux goes against the principle; however, Windows users have that tendency of associating the Microsoft empire as the only true way to compute....that is, until Android made its way onto the eeePC scene. I see a profitable future for MC on Android. Though, I see an intellectual stimulation to satisfy the geeks by working MC on RPM Fusion and forget DBS, Ubuntu, and TAR make.install. Just recall that Android is a mere step up from that specific point in code space and RPM installations. It may even open a new market for J River on Red Hat. For certain, Red Hat is bound to get involved and send developing funding your way since IBM still contributes to the OpenG licensing.... Along with countless others. Google Chrome works very well with Fedora closing the reign of poorly adaptable code from Mozilla. In more concrete terms, who knows where it will lead? Selling licensing in Linux is certainly never recommended! Your decision MUST consider fanatical groups as those of Anon, for example. Although, political, and to which they monitor security portals, a quick well considered letter would speak volumes for the predictor factor. I am a rather large fan of their work to reduce porn (child or not) on the Internet, but fare away for their take on what should remain OpenG licensing. I would certainly not ignore how they monitor the TechRepublic where you would certainly retrieve the answer to your question on that very specific portal.
Please feel free to contact me for additional insight on either of these subjects utilizing my personal eMail.
Thank you for listening
Fedora Linux Prof Beaudet
Personal eMail: rbeaudet50@gmail.com
We've asked about porting MC to Mac in a recent poll. I'm asking for your opinion on Linux as well.
It would be a very big project for JRiver. We have about 1.5 million lines of code and changes would need to be made throughout.
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