Fluendo - Fluendo accumulation anxious over EC blackmail to open-source investment

Fluendo, Influencing the Multimedia WorldStore this angel in big sizeLeading Spanish software aggregation Fluendo S.A. today bidding its affair that, if upheld, the European Commission's objections apropos Oracle’s accretion of Sun could set a antecedent that will attenuate the development of accessible antecedent technology worldwide.

As a key contributor to the Free Software multimedia landscape, the Fluendo Group believes that the Commission should abandon its appearance that any accessible antecedent software artefact represents a amount coercion on proprietary vendors, behindhand of absolute competition. If this antecedent is accustomed a basic antecedent of allotment for OSS vendors will dry up.

Venture capitalists and abeyant acquirers will apperceive accessible antecedent software offerings not as an asset, but as a accountability which engenders greater antitrust analysis and abeyant prohibition, said Pascal Pegaz Paquet, co architect of Fluendo. Venture capitalists, who are a basic antecedent of costs for arising technologies, will no best be accommodating to invest, he added.

"At a time if policymakers should be accomplishing aggregate they can to advance innovation, the Commission is aggressive to set a antecedent that will asphyxiate off costs for development of accessible antecedent software ventures, decidedly in Europe," said Mr Pegaz Paquet.

"Fluendo follows a actual agnate aisle to MySQL and we are bound accepting bazaar allotment adjoin giants on assorted bazaar segments including broadcasters with our alive solutions, accouterments manufacturers with our codecs, etc... The aftereffect of that case with Oracle and Sun ability absolutely accomplish our activity harder if it comes to alive with VCs or abeyant M&As" said Julien Moutte, arch controlling administrator and co architect of Fluendo.
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Fluendo, Influencing the Multimedia World

Fluendo was founded in 2004 to abode the multimedia affair in GNU/Linux and Free Software in General. Fluendo employs several of the axial developers of the GStreamer multimedia framework, which is bound establishing itself as the de-facto accepted multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. Fluendo accommodate a advanced ambit of articles beneath and aloft GStreamer including proprietary codecs (together with their corresponding apparent licenses), a alive server, a DVD player, the Fluoh Media Center, and an Open Source media centermost project.

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