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Now that MPlayer 1.0pre5try2 is released, fixing multiple security vulnerabilities, it is nice to post a small note about cooperation that happens behind the scenes. Some people may be used to think xine and MPlayer as competing, hate each other applications. This is very far from truth. If you check the security fixes recently committed to xine and MPlayer you will notice they are basically the same. In fact, developers from both projects have received different advisories from iDEFENSE and exchanged patches for fixing them. This is not the first time this happens and won't be the last (cooperation always existed in other areas such as codec development as well). So xine and MPlayer may even compete for the user's preference, but they do so in a healthy free software way ;-) |
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