[MPlayer-dev-eng] HUP Award 2004 - favorite video player

[Diego Biurrun]

Arpi writes:
> 
> about the other projects in this award, there were some translations, like
> the mozilla translation project, i dont count on them much, i just mentioned
> the openoffice one because its much more than just translation, its about
> adding proper language support, including spell checkers, fonts whatever,
> they patched a lot to support all part of evil hungarian typografy...

Good point.  The OOo translation is a genuine Hungarian project then,
much more than MPlayer ever was.  hup.hu should maybe only nominate
these kinds of projects in the Hungarian category.  It surely deserves
to win in this category more than MPlayer.  If you feel we should step
back from the award in their favor I won't stand in the way.

> > I strongly disagree here, multimedia is one of the main applications
> > of modern desktop computers.  If I look around, people use their home
> > computers more often to watch movies than for office applications.
> 
> but proper usable (original ooo isnt too usable for hungarians, doesnt even
> support our accents well, o~ u~ instead of o" u" etc) office application is
> required to bring linux to offices and government, and so get some more
> users and sponsors for it...

Both home and office desktops should be usable.  I won't judge which
one is more important, such a comparison is largely futile.

> ok i know you dont care, but it's vital for getting linux wide spread,
> otherwise we will never see big applications ported, proper drivers,
> oem computers offered with linux instead of windows etc.

Are you saying that to me in particular or to the members of this list
in general?  I can assure you I DO care about Linux, free software and
its widespread adoption.  If spending countless hours on this project,
fighting actively against sw patents, advocating Mozilla/Firefox and
installing free software infrastructure at my employer don't convince
you, nothing will...  When I was in Argentina I even spoke to the
secretary for software and telecommunication at the ministry for
science and technology to explain how open source development works
and how the government can benefit from using it.

> also, government wont vote yes for sw patents if they are using linux :)

The sw patent issue will be decided in 2005, long before most
governments will have have started and much less finished Linux
migration projects.

If you want to fight against sw patents, talk to your local EU
representatives and convince them why sw patents are evil.  I did it,
it works, my member of parliament will vote against sw patents now.

Diego