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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 21 for Linux => Topic started by: AlexS on August 16, 2015, 08:38:55 pm
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Just a thought... Most of the other media players distributed with it are crap....
Then again as the software isn't free they will probably won't do it I suspect.
Or maybe it will need to be Ubuntu certified ;) BTW Joke!
Hey you guys want to make money right?
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Just a thought... Most of the other media players distributed with it are crap....
Then again as the software isn't free they will probably won't do it I suspect.
Or maybe it will need to be Ubuntu certified ;) BTW Joke!
Hey you guys want to make money right?
Haven't really thought about that. Maybe we will at some point...
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Then again as the software isn't free they will probably won't do it I suspect.
This is what came to mind too, they'd probably favor FOSS players.
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Then again as the software isn't free they will probably won't do it I suspect.
This is what came to mind too, they'd probably favor FOSS players.
The language from their about page aligns with your suspicions:
https://ubuntustudio.org/about-ubuntustudio/ (https://ubuntustudio.org/about-ubuntustudio/)
It comes preinstalled with a selection of the most common free multimedia applications available ...
Ubuntu Studio is a community effort, created by volunteers, ...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/WhatIsUbuntuStudio (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/WhatIsUbuntuStudio)
I'm also seeing the words "open source" a fair bit, which is where the F(L)OSS comment comes in. So, JRiver won't qualify.
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It comes preinstalled with a selection of the most common free multimedia applications available.
When Linux projects say "free" they usually use that word to mean F(L)OSS rather than "at no cost"; there's a "thing" in Linux culture about "free as in beer vs. free as in freedom" and just because software is provided at no cost doesn't mean it's actually "free," etc. In fact, the word free in the text you quoted is a hyperlink to the wiki explanation of free as in freedom software/FOSS/FLOSS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOSS
So anywhere you see the phrase "free software" in a linux context, it's often a good bet to just read "F(L)OSS." They go on to clarify that FLOSS stands for Free Libre Open Source Software. With some minor exceptions, such as non-free wifi drivers in the kernel, all the applications you use on Ubuntu Studio are truly FLOSS.
So JRiver would probably be ideologically excluded even if they were willing to bundle it (which they probably wouldn't be).