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-It is Real Networks' way of open sourcing to try to beat WindowsMedia.
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HelixCommunity is a collaborative effort between Real Networks, independent developers, and leading companies to create and extend the Helix DNA platform, the first open and comprehensive platform for digital media delivery. %%% --[HelixCommunity.com|http://www.helixcommunity.com/]
+HelixCommunity is
+*
a collaborative effort between Real Networks, independent developers, and leading companies to create and extend the Helix DNA platform, the first open and comprehensive platform for digital media delivery. %%% --[HelixCommunity.com|http://www.helixcommunity.com/]
+* Real Networks' way of open sourcing their player to try to beat WindowsMedia. They want to have a player on as many desktops as possible, so they can sell the Real server suite to content providers.
This means:
* OggVorbis support in RealPlayer
-* open sourcing the client and encoder for RealPlayer so that everyone can have a hack at it
+* open sourcing the client and encoder for RealPlayer so that everyone can have a hack at it (but not thing everybody really wants: the Real [codecs|CoDec]
* WindowsMedia should be scared :)
-BrucePerens seems to like this idea.
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-''Helix is good, but they are not going to OpenSource the thing everybody really wants: the [CoDec]s.'' --SimonCrosby
-But
it isn't necessarily all good. Read an opinion piece about [the Real deal | http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/index.php?p=191] and see what you think.
+BrucePerens seems to like this idea, but
it isn't necessarily all good. Read an opinion piece about [the Real deal | http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/index.php?p=191] and see what you think.
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!!! The Helix Platorm
