Comments on: To Trust Or Not To Trust http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4738 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4738/comment-page-1#comment-13172 Reader's Write Thu, 05 May 2005 03:24:24 +0000 #comment-13172 RealPlayer has historically had a dodgy reputation among knowledgable users. This is because their installs used to take over your entire computer, installing icons that couldn't be removed and shortcuts all over the place. Their Linux RealPlayer was a step in the right direction, but it doesn't have the feel yet of a real open source program. This may be why there are security holes in it -- if the good open source developers sense something isn't quite right about a project, they won't work on it. That could be happening to Real. You can actually listen to Real Media on Linux without using their player. Download MPlayer at http://www.mplayerhq.hu and the package of codecs that includes Real Media. Then you can listen on a real Linux program. RealPlayer has historically had a dodgy reputation among knowledgable users. This is because their installs used to take over your entire computer, installing icons that couldn’t be removed and shortcuts all over the place.

Their Linux RealPlayer was a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t have the feel yet of a real open source program.

This may be why there are security holes in it — if the good open source developers sense something isn’t quite right about a project, they won’t work on it. That could be happening to Real.

You can actually listen to Real Media on Linux without using their player. Download MPlayer at http://www.mplayerhq.hu and the package of codecs that includes Real Media. Then you can listen on a real Linux program.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/4738/comment-page-1#comment-13167 Reader's Write Thu, 05 May 2005 01:59:20 +0000 #comment-13167 I look forward to the day when people trust software based on its accountability, transparency, and track record, rather than blind trust or total ignorance. We don't choose our politicians this way, so why do people still choose the software that governs the activities of computers that way? Microsoft is guilty of far more scandalous activities than any politician in Canada, and yet we don't exercise our power as consumers and vote accordingly. http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/code-is-law-speedgeek.html I look forward to the day when people trust software based on its accountability, transparency, and track record, rather than blind trust or total ignorance.

We don’t choose our politicians this way, so why do people still choose the software that governs the activities of computers that way? Microsoft is guilty of far more scandalous activities than any politician in Canada, and yet we don’t exercise our power as consumers and vote accordingly.

http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/code-is-law-speedgeek.html

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