Secondly, even if the company would allow a group of FOSS developers access to port it for them after signing an NDA and giving up all rights to the code we write. The source code isn't available and we are not legally allowed to touch it, even if it somehow suddenly appeared on my desk or the internet. That and the fact you have to purchase a key to get full functionality means 99.99% of the time that it is under a restrictive proprietary license.Īssuming it is proprietary, what is it that you are requesting of the open source community? In the first place, a group of us couldn't just decide to port it over to Linux even if we wanted to.
Looking on the site I couldn't find any information anywhere about the license it is being released under. I must admit, I have never heard of MediaMonkey but I just went to their site to check it out. My next step will be to simply move all my Music to an external hard-drive and dual-boot xp Right now I am using Vmware, it works consistently but MediaMonkey wont actually play music and also moves incredibly slow when editing tags. Midnight I have tried wine and most times if I can even get it to work, it doesnt work properly. I'm not trying to insult you or anything, just to inform you that it is very unpleasant to have your thread crushed by a pessimistic rant. Zeesson, have you tried Wine? (if not, search it) Instead, we could encourage zeesson to find a way to solve his own problem. Midknight wrote:blahblah, please realize that every time you or someone else rants about how Linux won't satisfy everyone's smallest wishes, think of the fact that you are discouraging another user from using Linux, and stopping him or her from spreading the word, and therefore slowing the Free Software Movement and putting another $300 in Microsoft's pocket. By the way this is not just my gut feeling go to the MediaMonkey forums and you will see for yourself the huge number of Linux users there who are simply chomping at the bit for a native Linux version.
Im just refering to the coupele-hundred-thousand MediaMonkey Users (99% of which simply will not due without it) A large portion of the MediaMonkey community wants to get away from Windows completely and has already tried a Linux Distro or two and loved them, but simply could not due without MediaMonkey (which is not just an mp3 manager as you so ignorantly put it). Im not suggesting that People who never heard of Mediamonkey or people who never had a desire to switch to Linux would suddenly feel compelled to do so if Mediamonkey were converted. If they do decide to use linux, they actually want to use it and explore the different software, not complain about one individual product not being ported over to a minority operating system.īlah, I think you misunderstood my point.
Most people either don't use linux because they don't want to make the change or are happy with what they are using already. There are probably about 50 people that fit that category. BlahBlah_X wrote:I had never heard of media monkey until now.Īnd anyways, I highly doubt there are 10s of thousands of possible linux users that would adopt it only if one mp3 manager was ported to linux.