For the Linux fans out there, today is a great day! Up until now, blu-ray playback support in Linux has been very complicated and quite an aggravating experience
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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Quadduc
2 years 19 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago
Non-free software
The software one is supposed to install here is non-free, apparently even with an EULA.
Because of the malicious features of Blu-Ray discs and players, I strongly recommend not buying any Blu-Ray players at all or any movies until they can be viewed using 100 % free software.
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2 years 19 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago
Good News
I downloaded the source package and checked a few of the source files. MakeMKV makes use of various free software and MakeMKV itself is free software licensed under LGPLv2.1. Maybe you were looking at the binary package for Windows which probably has an associated EULA.