VLC media player

[Marks256]

**broken link removed**


Notice the price?

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE HERE: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The things these people on ebay sell! Basically you have to pay for something free!?!?!? I don't care if they "are authorized to distribute this software under the GNU General Public License." (which they are most likely not)! That is 100% wrong! selling opensource programs... the world is defective with morons like them!

 

[Sceadwian]

Doesn't that violate the GNU license? You're not allowed to charge for software. It's legal to charge for physical media, but I don't think the bandwidth to send the message counts. Anyone that buys items like that deserve exactly what they get for their own ignorance. And actually the world is defective with morons that buy that kind of stuff. There are no predators if there are no victims =)

 

[justDIY]

the GPL doesn't prohibit charging for a gpl'd product or product containing gpl code. the catch is, you have to provide the entire source code upon request for your product if it contains any gpl code.

redhat linux is a good example of this. redhat enterprise linux is a commercial product, not available for free. but since it's based on gpl code, redhat has to provide the entire source tree. the good folks at the centos project recompile the source tree, and essentially "give away" redhat enterprise linux.

 

[Sceadwian]

Redhat mostly charges for their customer service and support anyways don't they?

 

[Gayan Soyza]

Features quite good but its not supporting to any Infra Red Plug INS under windows to configure a remote.

 

[justDIY]

yea, I think a lot of their revenue comes from support contracts and services like centralized web-based update management